VocabularyJLPT N5 · core

海

うみ

hepburn umi

sea, ocean

Part of speech · noun

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海sea

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Examples

夏は海に行きます。
In summer I go to the sea.
海は広いです。
The sea is wide.

Collocations

海に行く (go to sea)海で泳ぐ (swim in sea)海岸 (kaigan, coast)海外 (kaigai, overseas — "outside the sea")日本海 (Nihonkai, Sea of Japan)

Mnemonic

Umi — 海, sea. The sound is Yamato. Core to Japan's island-nation vocabulary. The kanji 海 is the same in Korean "hae" and Chinese "hǎi." "Overseas" — 海外 kaigai — literally "outside the sea": an island nation's gaze at the world, fixed inside one word.

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"Overseas travel" in Japanese?