Kanji1 / 9
洋 kanji
ocean, sea, foreign, Western style
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
ヨウ
Kun readings
NoneWords with 洋
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —海洋秩序international order of the seas; public order at sea
- —巡洋戦艦battle cruiser; battlecruiser
- —海洋化学chemical oceanography; marine chemistry
- —海洋工学ocean engineering
- —洋務運動Self-Strengthening Movement (political reform movement in China during the late Qing dynasty); Westernization Movement
- —西洋菓子Western confectionery
- —西洋骨牌Western playing cards
- —和洋合奏wayō gassō; mixed orchestra using Japanese and Western instruments
- —西洋哲学Western philosophy
- —東洋哲学Eastern philosophy; Asian philosophy
- —東洋人街Asian quarters (esp. in Brazil); Asian district
- —洋式便器Western-style toilet
- —太平洋側Pacific seaboard
- —洋菓子屋cake shop; pastry shop; confectionary
- —三洋信販Sanyo Shinpan (consumer loan firm)
- —東洋製鋼Toyo Steel Corporation
- —東洋大学Toyo University
- —北洋銀行North Pacific Bank
- —仮装巡洋艦merchant raider; auxiliary cruiser
- —大西洋横断trans-Atlantic; trans-Atlantic crossing