沖

沖 — open sea, offing, rise high into sky

JLPT: JLPT N1
Strokes: 7
Taught in: Secondary school
Frequency: #929 most common

Readings

On'yomi came with the character from Chinese; kun'yomi is the native Japanese word it was borrowed for. A dot marks where okurigana takes over, a hyphen marks a prefix or suffix position.

On'yomi: ちゅう chuu
Kun'yomi: おき oki

おきつ okitsu

ちゅう.する chuu.suru

わく waku

Example words for this kanji are being written.

Words that use 沖

A kanji is worth learning for the words it unlocks. These are from the JLPT vocabulary lists.

沖おき open sea JLPT N4