Kanji1 / 7
沖 kanji
open sea, offing, rise high into sky
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
チュウ
Kun readings
おきおきつちゅうするわく
Variant forms
冲Words with 沖
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —沖積alluvial
- —沖天rising into the heavens
- —在沖staying in Okinawa; resident in Okinawa; stationed in Okinawa
- —沖積期alluvial period
- —沖積世alluvial epoch (i.e. the Holocene epoch)
- —沖積層alluvium; alluvial stratum
- —沖積土alluvial soil
- —沖積統alluvial series
- —沖するto rise up into the air; to ascend into the sky
- —沖積平野alluvial plain
- —在沖米軍US troops stationed in Okinawa