うみ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of うみ – see the following entries.

【海】2 [noun] a sea, an ocean [noun] a lake [noun] (figurative) an object covering over a large area, as in 血の海 (chi no umi, “pool of blood”) or 火の海 (hi no umi, “sea of fire”) [noun] (planetology) a mare (dark surface of a celestial body, thought to appear like a sea) [noun] (calligraphy) in a 硯 (suzuri, “inkstone”), a reservoir where water is stored [proper noun] a female given name

【膿】H [noun] pus

(This term, うみ (umi), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.) For a list of all kanji read as うみ, see Category:Japanese kanji read as うみ.)