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
- —３等海佐lieutenant-commander (JMSDF)
- —海鮮どんseafood donburi
- —地中海実蠅Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata); medfly
- —蒼海の一粟drop in the bucket; drop in the ocean; one grain of millet in a vast ocean
- —滄海の遺珠talented person unbeknownst to the world
- —海兵隊讃歌Marines' Hymn
- —オランダ海芋calla lily (Zantedeschia aethiopica)
- —海鮮どんぶりseafood donburi
- —大日本帝國海軍Imperial Japanese Navy (1872-1945)
- —待てば海路の日和有りgood things come to those who wait; if you wait, there will come a fine day for taking the sea route
- —地中海モンクアザラシMediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus)
- —桑田変じて滄海と成るthe world is a scene of constant changes; a mulberry field changes into a blue sea