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洋

JLPT N4 SL3 9 strokes Frequency: #763

Meanings

Ocean, Sea, Foreign, Western Style

Radicals

氵

Decomposition

⿰氵羊

Etymology

Pictophonetic: water

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 9

Stroke Order

1 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

2 dot bottom-to-top

3 rising bottom-to-top

4 dot right-to-left

5 diagonal right-to-left

6 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

7 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

8 horizontal bottom-to-top

9 vertical right-to-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ヨウ you

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

No common kun'yomi readings

Words Using This Kanji

320 words total

Other (20 words)

東北地方太平洋沖地震とうほくちほうたいへいようおきじしん

Tōhoku earthquake (March 11, 2011)

太平洋諸島たいへいようしょとう

islands of the Pacific Ocean

太平洋艦隊たいへいようかんたい

Pacific fleet

洋包丁ようぼうちょう

Western-style kitchen knife (esp. with double-beveled blade)

洋モクようモク

foreign cigarette

西洋薄荷せいようはっか

peppermint (Mentha x piperita)

西洋流せいようりゅう

Western ways

海洋深層水かいようしんそうすい

deep ocean water

西洋絹柳せいようきぬやなぎ

osier (Salix viminalis)

marine biology

Western goods

Western video game

superocean

Pacific plate

marine life

shop that handles Western goods (esp. Western-style apparel and accessories)

洋学校ようがっこう

Western school

大西洋標準時たいせいようひょうじゅんじ

Atlantic Standard Time

洋パンようパン

prostitute who serves Westerners

洋医ようい

practitioner of Western medicine

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