しお
Meanings
Noun
1. tide; current
2. sea water
3. opportunity; chance
when read as "しお"
4. thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater
when read as "うしお"
Kanji used
tide
Pitch accent
Top 6900
Used in vocabulary (51 in total)
salty sea breeze; salt wind
blood spilt from the body; blood circulating within the body (often as a metaphor for strong emotion or hot-bloodedness)
tidal hour; right time; favourable opportunity (favorable)
spouting (e.g. of a whale, blowhole, etc.); blowing water; Mactra veneriformis (species of trough shell); female ejaculation; squirting
to blow water (whale, blowhole, etc.); to spout; to squirt (female ejaculation)
sweep of the tide; drift of the tide; tidal current
whirling tides
to blow water (whale, blowhole, etc.); to spout; to squirt (female ejaculation)
storm surge
junction line between two sea currents; line where two ocean currents meet; course of things; turning point
Kuroshio Current; Japan Current
spring tide
rising tide; incoming tide; flood tide; surge (in popularity, power, etc.); upswing
salt air; sea air
tanned by the sun and sea breezes
weather tide; adverse current
a tideway; a sea route
tidal hour; right time; favourable opportunity (favorable)
morning tide
waiting for the rising tide or a good opportunity
Oyashio Current; Kurile Current; Okhotsk Current
tidal hour; right time; favourable opportunity (favorable)
violent tide; fierce tidal current
rising of the tide; a beginning
high tide
evening tide
point where two ocean currents meet (e.g. a warm current and a cold current); (arch.) attractive glance
to weep copiously; to grieve; to be dejected
half tide (e.g. midway between spring and neap tides)
spray of sea water
tidal flat; ebb tide beach (esp. in spring)
inflow of the tide
neap tide
fast tide; rapidly changing tide
the speed of the tide
transitional tide between spring and neap tides
rising tide
summer tide; tide reflecting the summer sun
tidal bore; tidal flood; eagre
sea current
fiddler crab (esp. species Uca arcuata)
Shiomi City (a fictional city in the Fortune Arterial visual novel)