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海水 (かいすい, kaisui) Japanese meaning: seawater | Kotomora
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If you drink seawater, you actually get thirstier.
This fish grows in seawater.
Usage patterns 〈 場ば 所しょ 〉 の 海かい 水すい が 〈 形けい 容よう 詞し 〉 the seawater at a place is (some quality)
The seawater at this beach is cold and clear.
海かい 水すい を 飲の む to drink seawater (usually accidentally, while swimming)
I got swept by a wave and swallowed some seawater.
海かい 水すい に 浸つ かる to be soaked in seawater
My shoes got soaked in seawater and became covered in salt.
海かい 水すい を 汲く む to draw/scoop up seawater
I scooped up seawater with a bucket and put it in the tank.
Related words 海水 is the neutral, technical word for seawater, while 潮 is more evocative and also covers tide, current, and figurative timing.
海水 refers specifically to seawater, while 塩水 is the broader term covering any salty water, including homemade saline solutions.
Opposites 海水 is salty water from the ocean, whereas 真水 is fresh, non-salty water.
淡水 is fresh water without salt, while 海水 is seawater, the salty water of oceans.
Written forms 海かい 水すい Usage 98%
Standard kanji spelling for seawater; this is the only written form.
かいすい Usage 2%
Etymology A transparent Sino-Japanese compound: 海 means “sea” and 水 means “water.”
海かい 水すい 帽ぼう
