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
- —オホーツク海高気圧Okhotsk anticyclone; Okhotsk high
- —南海トラフ巨大地震Nankai megathrust earthquake
- —水金地火木土天海冥(mnemonic for) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto
- —千代田火災海上保険Chiyoda Fire and Marine Insurance Company, Limited
- —大東京火災海上保険Dai-Tokyo Fire and Marine Insurance Company, Limited
- —東京大学海洋研究所Ocean Research Institute of the University of Tokyo; ORI
- —北海道市営競馬組合Hokkaido Municipal Horse Race Association
- —北海道東北開発公庫Hokkaido-Tōhoku Development Finance Public Corporation
- —政府間海事協議機関Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization; IMCO
- —北海道社会事業協会Hokkaido Social Welfare Association
- —待てば海路の日和ありgood things come to those who wait; if you wait, there will come a fine day for taking the sea route
- —フィリピン海プレートPhilippine Sea Plate
- —桑田変じて滄海となるthe world is a scene of constant changes; a mulberry field changes into a blue sea
- —日本海寒帯気団収束帯Japan-Sea Polar-Airmass Convergence Zone; JPCZ
- —トラファルガーの海戦Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
- —三井住友海上火災保険Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance
- —太平洋海洋環境研究所Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory; PMEL
- —東京臨海新交通臨海線Tokyo Waterfront New Transit Waterfront Line
- —北海道野生動物研究所Hokkaido Wildlife Laboratory
- —海洋リモートセンシングocean remote sensing