Illustration: At a rocky Japanese shoreline during low tide, a child crouches beside a clear tide pool while a parent steadies their shoulder. Broad ribbonlike fronds and finer branching seaweed remain attached to submerged stones, their tips moving gently with incoming seawater.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

海かい藻そう

kaisou

seaweed

Example sentences

  1. 海藻かいそうは身体しんたいにいいですか?

    Is seaweed good for you?

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  2. 海藻かいそうを干ほす

    to dry seaweed

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  3. 一般的いっぱんてきに米こめをはじめとする穀物こくもつ、野菜やさい、豆類まめるい、果物くだものなどの農作物のうさくもつ、魚介類ぎょかいるいや海藻かいそうといった海産物かいさんぶつ、鳥類ちょうるいの肉にくなどがよく使つかわれる。

    Generally, farm products, such as grain, including rice, vegetables, beans, and fruits, marine products, such as fish and shellfish, seaweed, and meat, such as that of birds, are mostly used.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 海藻

  • 海sea; oceanOnカイKunうみ
  • 藻seaweed; duckweedOnソウKunも

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