Kanji1 / 12
湾 kanji
gulf, bay, inlet
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
ワン
Kun readings
いりえ
Variant forms
灣Words with 湾
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —港湾税harbor duties; harbour duties
- —港湾局Port and Harbor Authority
- —台湾茶Taiwanese tea (i.e. oolong)
- —台湾鹿Formosan sika; Taiwan sika (Cervus nippon taiouanus)
- —台湾語Taiwanese (language); Taiwanese Hokkien
- —側湾症scoliosis
- —湾曲部bend; flexure; bight
- —台湾猿Formosan rock macaque (Macaca cyclopis); Formosan rock monkey; Taiwanese macaque
- —台湾元New Taiwan dollar
- —台湾犬Taiwan dog (dog breed); Formosan mountain dog
- —江戸湾Edo Bay
- —台湾海峡Straits of Taiwan
- —湾岸戦争Gulf War (1990-1991)
- —港湾当局port authorities
- —台湾坊主atmospheric depression originating in Taiwan; cyclone in the East China Sea; spot baldness
- —台湾金魚paradise fish (Macropodus opercularis)
- —台湾泥鰌blotched snakehead (Channa maculata)
- —台湾出兵Taiwan Expedition (punitive expedition by the Japanese military forces; 1874)
- —台湾栗鼠Taiwanese squirrel (subspecies of Pallas's squirrel, Callosciurus erythraeus thaiwanensis)
- —台湾山芋water yam (Dioscorea alata); winged yam; purple yam