洋

Glyph origin
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Etymology

 * “multitudinous; vast; ocean”:
 * compares it with 🇨🇬. In contrast, sets up 🇨🇬, encompassing this and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.
 * Compare,.


 * "vast expanse of flat land"
 * The same word as, which is a variant of , used in and many place names in which  does not seem to mean "south side of mountain or north side of river" . It is also the same word as , used in place names. Cognate with , ,  used in place names.

Definitions

 * 1) multitudinous; vast
 * 2) ocean; vast area of sea; great expanse of water
 * 3) overseas; foreign; western; imported
 * 4) modern; stylish; fashionable
 * 5) novel; unusual
 * 6)  foreign money; dollar
 * 7)  plain; flatland
 * 1) modern; stylish; fashionable
 * 2) novel; unusual
 * 3)  foreign money; dollar
 * 4)  plain; flatland
 * 1)  plain; flatland

Descendants
Others:

Kanji

 * 1) ocean
 * 2) foreign country
 * 3) the West
 * 4) vast, wide

Readings
From :

From :

Native 🇨🇬 readings:

Etymology 1
→ →

From. Compare modern 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) an ocean
 * 2)  the East  or especially the West

Idioms

 * : “regardless of east or west of the ocean” → in either the East or the West → anywhere in the world, all over the world

Etymology 2
From. Found in the , completed some time after 759.

Noun

 * : the open sea

Etymology 3
Nominalization of the of classical adjective, modern.

Etymology
From.