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岸 kanji
beach
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
ガン
Kun readings
きし
Words with 岸
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —接岸coming alongside a pier, quay, etc.; reaching land (of a boat)
- —離岸setting sail; leaving the shore, dock, etc.
- —此岸this world; this life
- —陸岸land; shore
- —西海岸west coast
- —東海岸east coast
- —彼岸花red spider lily (Lycoris radiata); cluster amaryllis
- —彼岸会Buddhist services during the equinoctial week
- —海岸端seaside
- —姥彼岸double weeping rosebud cherry (Prunus pendula)
- —彼岸桜higan cherry (species of weeping cherry tree, Prunus subhirtella); early-flowering cherry (around the spring equinox); double weeping rosebud cherry (Prunus pendula)
- —離岸流rip current
- —南海岸south coast; southern shore
- —沿岸流coastal current; littoral current; alongshore current
- —海岸砲seacoast artillery
- —彼岸潮equinoctial tide; equinoctial spring tide
- —離岸堤offshore breakwater
- —向岸流current flowing from the open sea towards land
- —海岸堡beachhead
- —沿岸部coastal region; coastal area; coastline