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
- N3湾Popularbay; gulf; inlet
- —港湾Popularharbour; harbor
- —台湾PopularTaiwan
- —湾岸Populargulf coast; bay coast
- —湾曲Popularcurve; bend; crook
- —メキシコ湾PopularGulf of Mexico
- —峡湾fjord
- —岬湾capes and bays; indentation (of a coast)
- —湾入embayment; indentation (of a shoreline)
- —湾口entrance to a bay; mouth of a bay
- —湾流the Gulf Stream
- —湾頭bay shore
- —湾内inside the bay
- —湾外beyond the bay
- —内湾enclosed bay; inlet; deep bay; basin
- —海湾gulf; bay
- —湾生Japanese born in Taiwan during Japanese rule; campylotropous; sinuate
- —湾処(riverine) lagoon; fluvial lagoon
- —台湾人Taiwanese person; Taiwanese people
- —東京湾Tokyo Bay