Moto 潮: Tide; Salt Water; OpportunityKanji meaning, readings, and the words that use it
- On'yomi
- チョウ
- Kun'yomi
- しお、うしお
- Level
- JLPT N1Jōyō, grade 6
- Words
- 126 in the dictionary
Words that use the on'yomi (チョウ)
- 風潮ふうちょうtide; current
- 潮流ちょうりゅうtide; tidal current
- 紅潮こうちょうflush; blush
- 初潮しょちょうfirst menstruation
- 思潮しちょうtrend of thought
- 最高潮さいこうちょうclimax; peak
- 満潮まんちょうhigh tide; high water
- 退潮たいちょうebb tide; waning fortunes
- 高潮こうちょうhigh tide; high water
- 世の風潮よのふうちょうcurrent of the times
- 世界思潮せかいしちょうmain currents (the trend) of thinking in the world
- 主潮しゅちょうmain current
- 低潮ていちょうlow tide; low water
- 啓蒙思潮けいもうしちょうenlightenment movement; the Enlightenment
- 太陰潮たいいんちょうlunar tide (tide caused by the Moon)
- 太陽潮たいようちょうsolar tide (tides caused by the Sun)
- 干潮かんちょうlow tide; low water
- 干潮線かんちょうせんlow-water mark; low-tide line
- 感潮域かんちょういきestuary; estuarine basin
- 感潮河川かんちょうかせんtidal river
- 春潮しゅんちょうpleasant tides of spring
- 時代思潮じだいしちょうthought of the times
- 暗潮あんちょうundercurrent
- 朔望潮さくぼうちょうspring tide
- 検潮儀けんちょうぎtide gauge
- 検潮器けんちょうきtide gauge
- 海潮音かいちょうおんsound of the sea; sound of the waves
- 満潮線まんちょうせんhigh-water mark; high-water line
Words that use a kun'yomi
- 潮しおtide; current
- 黒潮くろしおKuroshio Current; Japan Current
- 上げ潮あげしおrising tide; incoming tide
- 大潮おおしおspring tide
- 潮干狩りしおひがりshell gathering (at low tide); clamming
- 潮時しおどきtidal hour
- 潮風しおかぜsalty sea breeze; salt wind
- 赤潮あかしおred tide
- 下げ潮さげしおebb tide
- 中潮なかしおhalf tide (e.g. midway between spring and neap tides)
- 八潮路やしおじlong sea voyage
- 八重の潮路やえのしおじdistant seas
- 出潮でしおhigh tide
- 夏潮なつしおsummer tide; tide reflecting the summer sun
- 夕潮ゆうしおevening tide
- 小潮こしおneap tide
- 差し潮さししおrising tide
- 引き潮ひきしおebb tide
- 彼岸潮ひがんじおequinoctial tide; equinoctial spring tide
- 早潮はやしおfast tide; rapidly changing tide
- 朝潮あさしおmorning tide
- 渦潮うずしおwhirling tides
- 潮の干満しおのかんまんebb and flow
- 潮の流れしおのながれsweep of the tide; drift of the tide
- 潮の目しおのめpoint where two ocean currents meet (e.g. a warm current and a cold current)
- 潮を吹くしおをふくto blow water (whale, blowhole, etc.); to spout
- 潮を噴くしおをふくto blow water (whale, blowhole, etc.); to spout
- 潮上帯しおじょうたいsupratidal zone
Other readings
- 上潮あげしおrising tide; incoming tide
- 引潮ひきしおebb tide
- 望潮しおまねきfiddler crab (esp. species Uca arcuata)
- 満ち潮まんちょうhigh tide; high water
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