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
- —海上輸送marine transport; carriage by sea
- —北海油田North Sea oil fields
- —深海平原abyssal plain (2,200-5,500m)
- —超深海帯hadal zone; hadopelagic zone; trench zone
- —海洋生物marine life; marine organism
- —海外移転offshoring; overseas transfer (esp. of production)
- —海外強化expanding abroad; tapping overseas markets
- —海軍中将vice-admiral
- —海外取材overseas reporting; covering a story abroad
- —海外渡航foreign voyage; travelling overseas; travelling abroad
- —海外展開overseas deployment (e.g. military forces); overseas expansion (e.g. business operations)
- —東海地震Tokai earthquake (e.g. of 1498, 1605, 1707 and 1854)
- —海洋汚染marine pollution; oceanic pollution; sea pollution
- —海賊放送pirate radio
- —航海薄明nautical twilight
- —海上交通marine traffic; sea traffic
- —海洋国家maritime nation
- —北海海老Hokkai shrimp (Pandalus latirostris)
- —日本海軍(Imperial) Japanese Navy
- —地中海食Mediterranean diet