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
- —洋白German silver; nickel silver
- —洋算Western arithmetic
- —洋物Western goods; Western things; imported goods
- —洋医practitioner of Western medicine; Western doctor
- —洋灰cement
- —洋剣Western sword (esp. sabre)
- —洋刀sabre; saber
- —洋鵡grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus); African grey parrot
- —洋癖addiction to Western things
- —航洋crossing an ocean by boat; sea voyage
- —内洋inland sea; inlet; gulf; bay
- —洋瓦Western-style roof tile
- —洋猫Western cat breed
- —三洋Sanyo; San'you
- —五大洋the five oceans (Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic)
- —巡洋艦cruiser (warship)
- —東洋人Asian person; Oriental
- —東洋通Orientalist
- —東洋風Oriental
- —南極洋Antarctic Ocean