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海水浴
かいすいよく
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sea bathing, seawater bath
Kaisuiyoku is 海水 (kaisui, “seawater”) plus 浴 (yoku, “bathing”).
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In a sentence
海水浴中に彼は友達に会った。
He met his friend while bathing in the sea.
ハワイでは１年中海水浴が楽しめる。
In Hawaii, we can enjoy swimming in the ocean all year round.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “海水(かいすい) (kaisui, “seawater”) + 浴(よく) (yoku, “bathing”)”
Source: Wiktionary: 海水浴 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.