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
- —大西洋PopularAtlantic Ocean
- —南氷洋PopularAntarctic Ocean
- —和洋折衷Popularblending of Japanese and Western styles
- —太平洋戦争PopularPacific War (1941-1945)
- —洋Occident and Orient (esp. the Occident); ocean; sea; foreign; Western; European
- —遠洋ocean; deep sea
- —南洋South Seas
- —北洋northern waters
- —洋館Western-style house (esp. one built in the Meiji or Taisho periods)
- —洋語Western language; Japanese word of Western origin
- —洋紅carmine; crimson
- —両洋Orient and Occident; Atlantic and Pacific
- —和洋Japan and the West; Japanese style and Western style
- —茫洋vast; limitless; boundless
- —洋傘(Western-style) umbrella; parasol
- —洋品Western-style apparel and accessories; haberdashery
- —洋行overseas travel (to Western countries); going abroad (to study or travel); store operated by a foreigner (in pre-communist China)
- —渡洋crossing the ocean
- —極洋polar seas
- —洋弓(Western) archery; Western-style bow