Meaning: ocean, Western
Conventional Reading: ヨウ
洋服（ヨウフク）: Western clothes
洋風（ヨウフウ）: Western, European
洋書（ヨウショ）: a foreign (Western) book
海洋（カイヨウ）: the sea(s), the ocean
遠洋（エンヨウ）: the open sea (far from land).
大洋（タイヨウ）: an ocean
太平洋（タイヘイヨウ）: the Pacific (Ocean)
西洋（セイヨウ）: the West; the Occident; Europe
東洋（トウヨウ）: the East; the Orient
和洋（ワヨウ）（の）: Japanese and Western (foreign)
Unconventionally:
洋（ひろし）: a reasonably common male name
#洋 is made of #さんずいへん（氵） and 羊 and 羊 is the pronunciation marker. Originally 洋 was the name of a river, from which 洋 developed the meaning of “a lot of water.”
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