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
- —洋ゲーWestern video game
- —洋品屋shop that handles Western goods (esp. Western-style apparel and accessories)
- —洋学校Western school; school dedicated to the study of the West and Western languages (late Edo and Meiji periods)
- —洋パンprostitute who serves Westerners
- —西洋種Western cultivar; Western variety; Western breed
- —東洋蘭Oriental orchid; orchid of Oriental origin
- —和洋室hotel room with both Western and Japanese elements (usu. with Western-style beds and a separate tatami-floored living area)
- —洋食器Western tableware; dinnerware
- —洋食化Westernization of food; Westernization of dietary habits
- —航洋船seagoing vessel; oceangoing ship
- —和漢洋Japan, China and the West; Japanese, Chinese and Western learning
- —西洋梣common ash (Fraxinus excelsior); European ash
- —洋食屋Western-style restaurant
- —洋食店Western-style restaurant
- —外洋水oceanic water; pelagic water
- —西洋茜common madder (Rubia tinctorum)
- —玄洋社Dark Ocean Society (1881-1946); Black Ocean Society
- —遠洋漁業deep-sea fisheries
- —海洋科学marine science
- —西洋松露(European) truffle