下海 Save Sign in to save words On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. xiàhǎi ㄒㄧㄚˋ ㄏㄞˇ 男 女 to go out to sea to enter the sea (to swim etc) to take the plunge (e.g. leave a secure job, or enter prostitution etc) fig. Character by character 下(xià)down 海(hǎi)ocean A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT