海運|かいうんkaiun[0]heiban (flat)

1. nounmaritime transport; shipping
   海運かいうん会社かいしゃに勤つとめています。↗

   I work for a shipping company.

• Synonym回漕かいそうWrittenDated word for shipping goods by sea, rarely used; for the modern shipping industry 「海運」 is the standard term.
• Related運漕うんそうWrittenOld-fashioned word for carrying cargo by ship, now rarely used; for sea transport today 「海運」 is the usual term.
• Related漕運WrittenHistorical written term for carrying goods by boat, especially grain shipments along rivers and canals; 「海運」 refers strictly to transport by sea.
• Antonym陸運りくうんNeutralAntonym: transport of passengers and goods over land, the counterpart of 「海運」, which moves them by sea.

Use 「海運」 for sea transport (e.g. 「海運会社」). The dated 「回漕」 and 「運漕」 mean shipping by boat; 「漕運」 is the historical term for grain transport by river or canal. For land transport, use 「陸運」.

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