a male given name

to look at, to view, to gaze / to watch something for a continuous period of time / to look at and consider something carefully / to observe or look off at something in the distance

to relax, calm down / to settle

vast and deep body of water / vigorous, courageous / faint, indistinct

a sea, an ocean / a lake / (figuratively) an object covering over a large area, as in 血の海 (chi no umi, “pool of blood”) or 火の海 (hi no umi, “sea of fire”)

ocean / foreign country / the West / vast, wide

an ocean / (by extension, from the sense of across the ocean) the East (Orient) or especially the West (Occident)

Alternative spelling of 灘 (nada): the open sea

a surname

a surname / a male or female given name