Word Meaning

よう you

洋 is read as よう (you) and means Occident and Orient (esp. the Occident).

Meaning

English

  1. Occident and Orient (esp. the Occident)
  2. ocean
  3. sea
  4. foreign
  5. Western
  6. European

Reading

Kana

よう

Romaji

you

Stroke Sequence

1 Characters • 9 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N4 Jōyō Grade 3 Kanken 8級 Antonyms Rank 143518 Priority W

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

洋画

ようが

Western painting

洋服

ようふく

Western-style clothes (cf. traditional Japanese clothes)

洋食

ようしょく

Japanized Western cuisine

洋間

ようま

Western-style room

洋風

ようふう

Western style

洋書

ようしょ

Western book

洋室

ようしつ

Western-style room

洋上

ようじょう

on the sea

洋楽

ようがく

Western music

洋品

ようひん

Western-style apparel and accessories

洋学

ようがく

Western learning (introduced to Japan in the late-Edo and early-Meiji periods)

洋行

ようこう

store operated by a foreigner (in pre-communist China)

Example Sentences

9

かれはようふくよりわふくがすきだ。

He likes Western clothes more than Japanese clothes.

こんやはようしょくをたべにいこう。

Let's go eat Western food tonight.

このいえにはようしつがふたつある。

This house has two Western-style rooms.

かのじょはようがをよくみる。

She often watches Western movies.

ちちはせいようのれきしにきょうみがある。

My father is interested in Western history.

たいへいようはとてもひろい。

The Pacific Ocean is very vast.

ようふうのかぐでへやをそろえた。

I furnished the room with Western-style furniture.

このみなとにはかいがいからのようせんがはいる。

Foreign ships from overseas enter this port.

とうようとせいようではかんがえかたがすこしちがう。

Ways of thinking differ a little between the East and the West.