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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)

Western hydrangea

Western language

marine ecology

Beiyang Army

North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis)

西洋医学せいよういがく

Western medicine

東洋区とうようく

Oriental (zoogeographical region)

西洋箱柳せいようはこやなぎ

Lombardy poplar (Populus nigra var. italica)

洋白ようはく

German silver

アジア太平洋戦争アジアたいへいようせんそう

Asia-Pacific War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945)

洋装本ようそうぼん

book bound in Western style

洋算ようざん

Western arithmetic

海洋底かいようてい

ocean floor

西洋館せいようかん

western style-house (esp. those built before WWII)

Western Indian Ocean

Indian Ocean

Indo-Pacific

marine

pelagic

(Western) clothing store

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