沖 — kanji meaning “open sea”
沖
open sea, offing, rise high into sky
- Meanings
- open sea, offing, rise high into sky
- On'yomi
- チュウ (chuu)
- Kun'yomi
- おき、おきつ、ちゅう.する、わく
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- 4
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 1
- Newspaper frequency
- #929 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 85
- Chinese reading
- chōng — Chinese character page
Words with 沖
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 沖縄 | おきなわ okinawa | Okinawa (city, prefecture) |
| 沖合 | おきあい okiai | off the coast; offshore; out at sea |
| 沖縄電力 | おきなわでんりょく okinawadenryoku | Okinawa Electric Power Co., Inc.; OEPC |
| 沖積 | ちゅうせき chuuseki | alluvial |
| 沖縄大学 | おきなわだいがく okinawadaigaku | Okinawa University |
| 沖積期 | ちゅうせきき chuusekiki | alluvial period |
| 沖積世 | ちゅうせきせい chuusekisei | alluvial epoch (i.e. the Holocene epoch) |
| 沖積層 | ちゅうせきそう chuusekisou | alluvium; alluvial stratum |
| 沖積土 | ちゅうせきど chuusekido | alluvial soil |
| 沖仲仕 | おきなかし okinakashi | longshoreman; stevedore |
| 沖天 | ちゅうてん chuuten | rising into the heavens |
| 沖縄県 | おきなわけん okinawaken | Okinawa Prefecture |
Data: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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