Illustration: A Japanese coastal passenger ship travels across open water, leaving a long wake toward a coastline now small in the distance. On the exposed side deck, a traveler braces against the breeze and looks ahead over uninterrupted sea.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

航こう海かい

koukai

sea voyage, sailing

Example sentences

彼かれは歴史的れきしてきな航海こうかいに出でた。
He set out on his historic voyage.
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彼かれらは航海こうかいに出でた。
They went on a voyage.
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船ふねは航海こうかい中ちゅうであった。
The ship was at sea.
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Kanji in 航海

航navigate; sailOnコウ
海sea; oceanOnカイKunうみ

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