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
- —洋犬Western breed of dog
- —洋本book of Western origin
- —洋学Western learning (introduced to Japan in the late-Edo and early-Meiji periods)
- —洋々broad; vast; boundless; wide
- —洋紙Western paper; paper manufactured in the Western manner
- —洋梨European pear (Pyrus communis); common pear
- —洋琴yangqin (Chinese hammered dulcimer); piano
- —洋装Western clothing; Western binding
- —洋髪Western hairdressing
- —洋種Western or foreign type
- —洋銀German silver; nickel silver; silver coinage imported to Japan during the late Edo and early Meiji periods
- —洋舞Western-style dance
- —洋蘭orchid of Western origin; tropical orchid
- —洸洋unfathomable; great expanse of water; incoherent
- —洋文Western word or sentence; word created by translating components of a Western word
- —洋妾Westerner's mistress
- —洋字characters used by Western civilization (esp. the Latin alphabet)
- —洋形Japanese Western-style envelope (opening on the long dimension; numbered 0-7, each with different sizes)
- —洋灯lamp
- —洋藍indigo