瀬

Meaning

瀬 centers on moving water in a shallow or fast-flowing place: rapids, currents, torrents, shallows, or shoals. The common thread is water moving over a shallow or uneven bed, creating swift or turbulent flow.

• 瀬せ

  shallows; shoal

• 瀬戸せと

  strait; channel

• 瀬戸内海せとないかい

  Seto Inland Sea; Inland Sea

• 高瀬たかせ

  shallow river; shallows

• 浅瀬あさせ

  shoal; shallows; sand bar; ford

• 大瀬おおせ

  Japanese wobbegong (Orectolobus japonicus); Japanese carpet shark; fringe shark

• 瀬戸際せとぎわ

  brink; verge; critical moment; crucial moment

• 川瀬かわせ

  rapids; shallows of a river

• 早瀬はやせ

  swift current; rapids

• 逢瀬おうせ

  rendezvous; tryst; (lover's) meeting; (secret) date

• 年の瀬としのせ

  the year end; end of the year; last days of the year

• 瀬戸物せともの
  N2

  earthenware; porcelain; china; pottery; crockery

• 瀬踏みせぶみ

  sounding out; measuring the depths (of a river)

• 立つ瀬たつせ

  one's position; one's face; one's honour; one's reputation

• アラフラ大瀬アラフラおおせ

  tasselled wobbegong (Eucrossorhinus dasypogon)

• 下瀬火薬しもせかやく

  Shimose powder (explosive composed chiefly of picric acid); Shimose

• 中瀬鉱なかせこう

  nakaseite

• 五十瀬いせ

  many torrents; many rapids

• 五瀬命いつせのみこと

  Itsuse no Mikoto; older brother of Emperor Jimmu who accompanied him on his eastern expedition but died in Kinokuni before reaching Yamato

• 尾瀬草おぜそう

  Japonolirion osense (species of flowering plant)

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