Meaning

Primary

Inlet

Alternative

Cove

Word Type

noun

Explanation

When you enter an inlet, you've gone into the inlet. It's also where water goes inside of the inlet (it's entering the inlet from the ocean, or whatever), so that's another way to think about it.

Reading

いりえ
  • Kyoko
    (Tokyo accent, female)
  • Kenichi
    (Tokyo accent, male)

Explanation

For this reading, just imagine this as 入り with pushed on at the end! Also note this is commonly written as 入江, but the reading stays the same!

Context

Context Sentences

静かな入り江で泳ぎました。

We swam in a quiet cove.

この入り江にはイルカがよくあそびに来ると入江さんが言っていた。

Mr. Irie told me that dolphins often visit this cove.

バルト海の北の入り江で知らない人からプロポーズされたんですが、とてもロマンチックだったのでつい承諾してしまったんです。

I was proposed to by someone I didn’t know in a cove north of the Baltic Sea. It was so romantic that I couldn't help accepting.

Kanji Composition