Illustration: On a quiet Japanese coast, successive waves roll toward a broad strip of sand, and open water stretches uninterrupted to the distant horizon. A small fishing boat sits well offshore beyond the breakers.

JLPT N5nounLevel estimated by Bebop

海うみ

umi

sea, ocean

Example sentences

海うみはとても広ひろい。
The sea is very wide.
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彼かれは海うみを怖こわがる。
He’s afraid of the sea.
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海うみは静しずかだった。
The ocean was calm.
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Kanji in 海

海sea; oceanOnカイKunうみ

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