# 海內
## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): hǎinèi
    (Zhuyin): ㄏㄞˇ ㄋㄟˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): hoi$^2$ noi$^6$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hái-lǎi / hái-lāi / hái-lōe
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: hǎinèi
*** Zhuyin: ㄏㄞˇ ㄋㄟˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: hǎinèi
*** Wade–Giles: hai$^3$-nei$^4$
*** Yale: hǎi-nèi
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: haeney
*** Palladius: хайнэй (xajnɛj)
*** Sinological IPA : /xaɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ neɪ̯⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: hoi$^2$ noi$^6$
*** Yale: hói noih
*** Cantonese Pinyin: hoi$^2$ noi$^6$
*** Guangdong Romanization: hoi$^2$ noi$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /hɔːi̯³⁵ nɔːi̯²²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hái-lǎi
*** Tâi-lô: hái-lǎi
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /hai⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ lai²²/
** (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hái-lāi
*** Tâi-lô: hái-lāi
*** Phofsit Daibuun: haylai
*** IPA (Taipei): /hai⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lai³³/
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /hai⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lai²²/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /hai⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ lai³³/
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou, variant in Taiwan, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hái-lōe
*** Tâi-lô: hái-luē
*** Phofsit Daibuun: hayloe
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /hai⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lue²²/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /hai⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ lue³³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /hai⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lue³³/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /hai⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ lue⁴¹/
* Middle Chinese: xojX nwojH
Rime :
| Character | 海 | 內 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 曉 (32) | 泥 (8) |
| Final (韻) | 咍 (41) | 灰 (42) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Closed |
| Division (等) | I | I |
| Fanqie | 呼改切 | 奴對切 |
| Baxter | xojX | nwojH |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /hʌi$^X$/ | /nuʌi$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /həi$^X$/ | /nuoi$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /xɒi$^X$/ | /nuɒi$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /həj$^X$/ | /nwəj$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /xᴀi$^X$/ | /nuᴀi$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /xɒi$^X$/ | /nuɒi$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /xɑ̆i$^X$/ | /nuɑ̆i$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | hǎi | nèi |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | hoi$^2$ | neoi$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*m̥ˤəʔ nˤ[u]p-s/
    (Zhengzhang): /*hmlɯːʔ nuːbs/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 海 | 內 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 2/2 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | hǎi | nèi |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ xoj$^X$ › | ‹ nwoj$^H$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*m̥ˁəʔ/ (dialect *m̥ˁ- > x-) | /*nˁ[u]p-s/ |
| English | sea | inside |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. |||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 海 | 內 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| No. | 9283 | 9381 |
| Phonetic component | 母 | 內 |
| Rime group | 之 | 內 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 海 | 内 |
| Old Chinese | /*hmlɯːʔ/ | /*nuːbs/ |

### Noun

海內
* (literary) within China; the territory within the Four Seas (that were thought to make up the borders of ancient China)
    From: Mencius, c. 4th century BCE
    Hǎinèi zhī dì fāng qiān lǐ zhě jiǔ, Qí jí yǒu qí yī. [Pinyin]
    The territory within the four seas embraces nine divisions, each of a thousand li square. All Qi together is but one of them.
    From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE
    Hàn xīng, hǎinèi wéi yī. [Pinyin]
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    From: c. 650 – 676, Wang Bo, 送杜少府之任蜀州 (Seeing off Vice-prefect Du on the occasion of his appointment to the state of Shu)
    Hǎinèi cún zhījǐ, tiānyá ruò bìlín. [Pinyin]
    When one has a close friend in this world, the far ends of heaven are like next door.

#### Synonyms

* (the world): 天下 (tiānxià)

#### Antonyms

* 海外 (hǎiwài)

#### Derived terms

* 名聞海內 / 名闻海内
* 海內一統 / 海内一统 (hǎinèi yītǒng)
* 海內無雙 / 海内无双