Kanji1 / 9
海 kanji
sea, ocean
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
カイ
Kun readings
うみ
Variant forms
海Words with 海
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —海賊船pirate ship
- —航海士mate; navigation officer
- —珊瑚海Coral Sea
- —領海線territorial limits
- —陸海軍army and navy
- —海人酸kainic acid
- —海成層marine deposit
- —海跡湖lagoon
- —海底谷submarine valley; submarine canyon
- —海泡石sepiolite; meerschaum
- —海洋法law of the sea; maritime law
- —海陸風land and sea breeze
- —海パンtrunks; shorts (e.g. seaside use)
- —海綿状spongiform; spongelike; spongy
- —海賊旗pirate flag; black flag; Jolly Roger
- —海綿体cavernous body; body of (genital) erectile tissue (incl. corpus cavernosum and corpus spongiosum)
- —海綿質spongin
- —海綿鉄sponge iron; direct reduced iron; DRI
- —降海型sea-run variety (of fish)
- —海鳥糞guano