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
- —外海ocean; open sea
- —環海surrounding seas; surrounded by the sea
- —絶海distant seas
- —渡海crossing the sea
- —山海mountains and seas
- —死海Dead Sea
- —海区ocean sector
- —海内the whole country
- —海牛sirenian (any aquatic mammal of order Sirenia, incl. manatees, and dugongs); sea cow
- —海気sea air; sea breeze; ocean and atmosphere; type of yarn-dyed silk goods
- —海芋calla (Zantedeschia aethiopica)
- —海図sea chart
- —海防coastal defense; coastal defence
- —海門strait; channel
- —海容forgiveness
- —海馬seahorse; sea horse; hippocampus; walrus
- —海産marine product; marine (e.g. product, animal etc.)
- —海魚ocean fish; saltwater fish
- —海淵(ocean) deep; deepest part of a trench
- —海棠flowering crab apple (Malus halliana); Kaido crab apple (Malus micromalus); Chinese flowering apple (Malus spectabilis); Siberian crab apple (Malus baccata); aronia (flower)