漢字城 Kanji Fortress

洋 ocean

Also: sea, foreign, western Style

On'yomi
ヨウ
Strokes
9
JLPT
N4
Taught in
Primary school, year 3

Stroke order

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5
  6. 6
  7. 7
  8. 8
  9. 9
洋 is written in 9 strokes. Each panel adds the next one; the dot marks where the brush starts.

Remember it

Sheep (羊) shipped across the wide water (氵) from the West — the ocean and things in foreign style.

A common word

  • 洋服 ようふく Western clothes

Example sentences

  • あたらしいようふくをかいました。

    I bought new clothes.

  • たいへいようはとてもおおきいです。

    The Pacific Ocean is very big.

Kanji that share a part

氵 is its radical. 131 kanji share it in all.

羊 is a component. 15 kanji share it in all.

  • 着 wear
  • 業 business
  • 差 distinction N3
  • 遅 slow N3
  • 達 accomplished N3
  • 義 righteousness N3
  • 様 esq. N3
  • 祥 auspicious N2