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
- —海内無双unparalleled in the whole country
- —四海兄弟people in the whole world being all brothers; universal brotherhood
- —海底撈月totally useless (fruitless) effort; wasting time on an impossible task (like trying to scoop up a reflected moon from the bottom of the sea)
- —滄海桑田the world is a scene of constant changes; the blue sea turns into a mulberry field
- —桑田滄海the world is a scene of constant changes (as a mulberry field changing into a blue sea)
- —桑田碧海the world is a scene of constant changes (as a mulberry field changing into a blue sea)
- —大海一滴a drop in the ocean (bucket)
- —東シナ海East China Sea
- —海外活動overseas activities
- —海洋学者oceanographer
- —海浜公園beachfront park; park by the sea
- —死海文書Dead Sea scrolls
- —死海写本Dead Sea scrolls
- —中央海嶺mid-ocean ridge; midocean ridge
- —六放海綿hexactinellid sponge; glass sponge (any sponge of class Hexactinellida)
- —石灰海綿calcareous sponge (any sponge of class Calcarea)
- —珪質海綿siliceous sponge (any sponge other than those of class Calcarea)
- —北海道犬Hokkaido (dog breed); Ainu dog
- —海外領土overseas territory; overseas possession
- —南海地震1946 Nankaido earthquake