Illustration: In a Japanese coast-guard training room, an instructor demonstrates jurisdiction using a relief model of an island coast. A shallow translucent insert follows the shoreline at a consistent offshore distance, clearly separating the adjoining sea belt from the open water beyond.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

領りょう海かい

ryoukai

territorial waters

Example sentences

監視船かんしせんは領海りょうかいを出でた。
The patrol boats went out of the territorial waters.
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雲揚うんようが許可きょかなく朝鮮ちょうせんの領海りょうかいを侵犯しんぱんしたので、これを排除はいじょしようとしたものである。
Because the Unyo had entered Korean territorial waters without permission, they tried to drive it away.
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漁船ぎょせんは領海りょうかいの中なかで魚さかなを捕とった。
The fishing boat caught fish in territorial waters.
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Kanji in 領海

領jurisdiction; dominionOnリョウKunえり
海sea; oceanOnカイKunうみ

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