Jisho

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9 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
sea, ocean
Kun:
うみ
On:
カイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
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Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 海運 【カイウン】 maritime transport, shipping
  • 海域 【カイイキ】 area of ocean
  • 公海 【コウカイ】 high seas, international waters
  • 内海 【ナイカイ】 inland sea, inlet, gulf, bay, lake

Kun reading compounds

  • 海 【うみ】 sea, ocean, waters
  • 海辺 【うみべ】 beach, seashore, seaside, coast
  • 内海 【ないかい】 inland sea, inlet, gulf, bay, lake
  • 血の海 【ちのうみ】 sea of blood, pool of blood

Readings

Japanese names:
あ、 あま、 うな、 うん、 え、 か、 た、 ひろ、 ひろし、 ぶ、 まち、 まま、 み、 め、 わたる
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
hai3
Korean:
hae

Spanish

  • mar
  • océano
  • playa

Portuguese

  • oceano
  • mar

French

  • mer
  • océan
55 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
94 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
88 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
158 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2553 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
99 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
211 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1071 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3.14 Japanese for Busy People
117 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
117 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
454 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1184 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
459 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
284 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
344 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
471 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17450 Morohashi
384 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3133 New Nelson (John Haig)
461 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
500 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
206 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
171 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
347 2001 Kanji
3a6.20 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-6 SKIP code
3815.7 Four corner code
1-19-04 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6d77 Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
Variants:

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 海葱 【カイソウ】 white squill (Urginea maritima), sea onion
  • 鬱蒼 【ウッソウ】 thick, dense, luxuriant

Kun reading compounds

  • 葱 【ねぎ】 Welsh onion (Allium fistulosum), Japanese bunching onion, green onion, spring onion, scallion
  • 葱油 【ねぎあぶら】 scallion oil
  • 万能ネギ 【ばんのうねぎ】 thin green spring onion shoots (esp. minced as a condiment)
  • 九条ネギ 【くじょうねぎ】 Kujō spring onion (variety common in the Kansai region)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
cong1
Korean:
chong

Spanish

Portuguese

French

3993 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
31454X Morohashi
5123 New Nelson (John Haig)
2389 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2471 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3k9.20 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-9 SKIP code
2-4-9 SKIP code
4433.2 Four corner code
1-39-12 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8471 Unicode hex code