Illustration: At a quiet sandy beach, a low wave curls and breaks just before reaching a child’s bare feet. Its raised ridge extends across the shallows, with white foam tumbling down the front and another smaller ridge approaching behind it.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

波なみ

nami

wave

Example sentences

波なみが高たかい。
The waves are high.
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波なみが立たち始はじめた。
The waves are rising.
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波なみに足あしをすくわれた。
The waves carried me off my feet.
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Kanji in 波

波waves; billowsOnハKunなみ

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