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

19 strokes
Radical:
rain
Parts:
Variants:
fog, mist
Kun:
きり
On:
ボウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1747 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 霧化 【ムカ】 atomization
  • 霧虹 【キリニジ】 fog bow, fogbow, mistbow, white rainbow
  • 夕霧 【ユウギリ】 evening mist
  • 海霧 【カイム】 sea fog
  • 蓮霧 【レンブ】 wax apple (Syzygium samarangense), Java apple

Kun reading compounds

  • 霧 【きり】 fog, mist, spray
  • 霧雨 【きりさめ】 drizzle, light rain
  • 黒い霧 【くろいきり】 thick fog (of suspicion), black veil of secrecy, covered-up crime, unethical act, etc.
  • 雲霧 【うんむ】 clouds and fog

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
wu4
Korean:
mu

Spanish

  • niebla
  • neblina

Portuguese

  • nevoeiro
  • névoa
  • neblina

French

  • brouillard
  • brume
1845 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1088 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5065 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1038 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1893 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2846 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
950 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
980 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
845 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1869 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3493 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1802 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2452 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1236 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
42418 Morohashi
2817 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6545 New Nelson (John Haig)
1228 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1314 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1924 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3145 2001 Kanji
8d11.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-8-11 SKIP code
1022.7 Four corner code
1-44-24 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9727 Unicode hex code