# 海 — Sea

Frequency rank 255 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 空 (Sky), less common than 報 (News).

- On’yomi: かい
- Kun’yomi: うみ
- Radical: 水 Water (Kangxi 85)
- Frequency path: Level II of XX
- School grade: 2
- Strokes: 10

The tsunami comes in through the window with all of that grudging jet's pressure, takes the hat off your head, and keeps climbing until the room, the street and the hills are one flat sea.

In words:

- 海 うみ — sea
- 海岸 かいがん — coast
- 海外 かいがい — foreign,abroad,overseas

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