漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
洋: ocean, sea
Also: foreign, Western style
JLPT N49 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
氵 carries the meaning · 羊 gives the sound
9 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
ヨウyou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 西洋せいようthe west
- 東洋とうようEast Asia
- 洋服ようふくWestern-style clothes
- 洋式ようしきWestern style
- 洋食ようしょくWestern-style meal
- 太平洋たいへいようPacific Ocean
- 大西洋たいせいようAtlantic Ocean
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Imagine three raindrops falling—that's sanzui! Whenever you see these three dots on the left side of a kanji, think of water, liquids, or anything that flows.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
洋 takes the 羊 family's reading, ヨウ (you).
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side洋 ocean · 氵
vs祥 auspicious · 礻In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · yáng
Same form: 洋 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 洋 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 洋 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin yáng most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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