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
JLPT level N4
200 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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

11 strokes
Radical:
say
Parts:
Variants:
office, official, comrade, fellow
On:
ソウゾウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1998 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 曹 【ソウ】 palace room for government officials, fellow, set (of people), clan, family
  • 曹灰硼石 【ソウカイホウセキ】 ulexite
  • 法曹 【ホウソウ】 legal profession, judicial officer, lawyer, attorney
  • 海曹 【カイソウ】 petty officer (navy)
  • 曹司 【ゾウシ】 palace room for government officials or ladies in waiting, room inside a palace or private estate allocated to employees, person living in such a room, boarding house for trainee administrators (ritsuryō period)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
cao2
Korean:
jo

Spanish

  • cadete
  • amigo

Portuguese

  • caçula
  • amigo

French

  • élève officier
  • sous-officier
  • ami
  • fils de bonne famille
1520 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
2030 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2134 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1413 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1479 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1929 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2114 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1933 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
999 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3414 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1759 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2394 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1181 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14297 Morohashi
2746 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2477 New Nelson (John Haig)
1173 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1257 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1448 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1978 2001 Kanji
4c7.10 The Kanji Dictionary
2-7-4 SKIP code
5560.6 Four corner code
1-33-66 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
66f9 Unicode hex code