海かい峡きょう
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Meanings
Noun
1. channel (e.g. between two land masses); strait
Kanji used
Pitch accent
かいきょう
Used in vocabulary
関かん門もん海かい峡きょう
Kanmon Straits (between Honshu and Kyushu)
Noun
Examples12
The ancestors of Native Americans went to the continent from Asia by way of the Bering Strait.
We took the cross-channel ferry from Dover to Calais.
The English Channel separates England and France.
They are building a long bridge across the channel.
Thursday Island is situated in the Torres Strait between Australia's northernmost Cape York and New Guinea.
The French are our neighbors across the Channel.