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
- —人海戦術human wave attack; human wave tactics; throwing people at a problem
- —瀬戸内海Seto Inland Sea; Inland Sea
- —台湾海峡Straits of Taiwan
- —天空海濶the open sky and the serene sea; as open as the sky and serene as the sea; magnanimous
- —東海地方Tōkai region (of Honshu; incl. Aichi, Shizuoka, Mie and southern Gifu prefectures)
- —南シナ海South China Sea
- —米海兵隊US Marine Corps
- —処女航海maiden voyage
- —日本海流Japan Current; Kuroshio Current
- —日本海溝Japan Trench
- —遠洋航海ocean navigation
- —四海同胞universal brotherhood
- —沈降海岸submerged shoreline
- —深海漁業deep-sea fishery
- —海上保険maritime insurance
- —海上封鎖sea blockade
- —海中公園underwater park
- —海外派兵troops overseas
- —海事衛星a maritime satellite
- —海底火山submarine volcano