沖 - open sea, offing, rise high into sky

off the coast; offshore; out at sea

open sea

Okinawa (city, prefecture)

Okinawa soba (thick noodles served in a pork soup)

Muennink's spiny rat (Tokudaia muenninki); Okinawa spinous country-rat

Lindera communis (species of spicebush)

Okinawan (language); Okinawan dialect

Okinawa Prefectural Police (abbr)

longshoreman; stevedore

alluvial epoch (i.e. the Holocene epoch)

alluvial soil

rising into the heavens