防潮堤

ぼうちょうてい ぼう ちょうてい

tide embankment, seawall

防潮林

ぼうちょうりん

forest planted to protect the shoreline; tidewater control forest

潮

しお うしお

tide, current

潮煮

うしおに

fish, shellfish, etc. boiled in salted water

潮汁

うしおじる

thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater

大潮

おおしお

spring tide

逆潮

ぎゃくちょう さかしお

weather tide, adverse current

潮目

しおめ

junction line between two sea currents, line where two ocean currents meet

潮境

しおざかい

point of contact between ocean currents

潮煙

しおけむり

spray of sea water

潮足

しおあし

the speed of the tide

落潮

らくちょう おちしお

low tide, decline

潮瀬

しおせ

sea current

親潮

おやしお

the Kurile Current

初潮

しょちょう

first menstruation

潮風

しおかぜ

salty sea breeze, salt wind

満潮

まんちょう みちしお

high tide, high water, full tide

思潮

しちょう

trend of thought

新潮

しんちょう

Shinchō (magazine and publisher)