Character · Nature
海
たいかい taikaiかいろ kairoえび ebiうみ umi
sea
Composition
Origin
Water (氵) carries the meaning and 毎 the sound: the vast dark expanse where all waters gather.
In the thoughts
- 大海taikaigreat ocean
- 海路kairosea route
- 海老ebishrimp
- 荒海araumiwild sea
Proverbs carrying this character
- 017 井の中の蛙大海を知らず The frog at the bottom of the well knows nothing of the great ocean.
- 078 待てば海路の日和あり Wait, and fair weather will come for the crossing.
- 098 海老で鯛を釣る Catching a sea bream with a shrimp.
- 167 春の海ひねもすのたりのたりかな The spring sea — all day long it swells and gently swells.
- 213 荒海や佐渡によこたふ天河 Wild sea — stretched over Sado Island, the River of Heaven.