This video (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8fVS78tvzU>) says that seaweed
is written like 海草、but Google Translate later told me it's instead 海藻, with 藻
as the second Kanji instead of 草. I know GT shouldn't be trusted, but I Google
Image searched 海藻 and got pictures of seaweed, so.. can someone tell me which
really means seaweed?
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kanji readings
How to write 'seaweed'?
海藻 = seaweed,

海草 = spermatophyta living in sea (water).

For details, see -> <https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B5%B7%E8%97%BB>
together with <https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B5%B7%E8%8D%89>.
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If you mean edible seaweed, 海藻 is right to use. Nori, wakame, mozuku, hiziki
and mekabu are all 海藻. They look like <http://bit.ly/1gfJick>

In Japan, usually, people don't eat 海草. Dugongs like to eat 海草.
<http://www.arkive.org/dugong/dugong-dugon/video-01a.html>

海草 is often used to mean 海藻 by mistake.
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