海（うみ）
JLPT N5 · noun
Pitch accent: atamadaka (head-high) — first mora high, then falls
Meaning: ocean / sea
Example sentences
- 夏休みに家族で海へ行った。 — My family went to the beach during summer vacation.
- 海はどこまでも広くて青い。 — The sea stretches out blue as far as the eye can see.
Idioms & proverbs containing “海”
- 待てば海路の日和あり (まてばかいろのひよりあり) — good things come to those who wait; if you wait, there will come a fine day for taking the sea route
- 桑田変じて滄海となる (そうでんへんじてそうかいとなる) — the world is a scene of constant changes; a mulberry field changes into a blue sea
- 鱧も一期、海老も一期 (はももいちご、えびもいちご) — all men are alike; all lives are alike; all men live and die; we all bleed the same; a pike conger has one life, a shrimp does too
- 井の中の蛙、大海を知らず (いのなかのかわず、たいかいをしらず) — the frog in the well knows nothing of the great ocean
- 井蛙は以って海を語る可からず (せいあはもってうみをかたるべからず) — a narrow-minded person cannot understand the ways of the world; a frog in the well cannot understand the ocean even if it is explained to it
- 父母の恩は山よりも高く海よりも深し (ふぼのおんはやまよりもたかくうみよりもふかし) — our debt to our parents is higher than the mountain and deeper than the sea
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