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
- —海鮮seafood
- —海壁sea wall
- —海象oceanic phenomenon; sea conditions
- —海嘯(tidal) bore; eagre; tsunami; tidal wave
- —海士seaman
- —海保Japan Coast Guard; JCG
- —性海world of tathata; the pure and absolute truth of the tathata is as wide as the sea
- —海漫ocean; large sea
- —海角cape; headland; promontory
- —海鳴oceanic noise; rumbling of the sea; mistpouffer
- —海禁ban on maritime activities during China's Ming and Qing dynasties
- —海総imperial navy order
- —海口harbor; entrance to a harbor; Haikou (China)
- —砂海sand sea
- —海南island in the southern sea (esp. Shikoku)
- —暖海warm sea
- —苦海sea of suffering; human realm
- —河海rivers and seas
- —縁海inland sea; epicontinental sea; epeiric sea; marginal sea
- —海人seashore dweller; fisherman; sea god; Poseidon; Neptune