Kanji1 / 8
国 kanji
country
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
コク
Kun readings
くに
Variant forms
囶圀國Words with 国
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —国風national customs and manners; provincial song or ballad; waka (classical Japanese poetry, as opposed to Chinese poetry)
- —属国vassal state; vassal nation; dependency
- —皇国Empire (of Japan); the (Japanese) Empire; Japan
- —国府Nationalist Government (of China; i.e. under the Kuomintang); provincial office (under the ritsuryō system); provincial capital
- —君国monarchy; monarch and nation
- —回国traveling throughout the country (travelling)
- —貴国your country
- —寒国cold country; cold region
- —国父father of one's country; father of the nation
- —国母empress; empress dowager
- —国号name of a country
- —国主king; sovereign; daimyo with a domain of one or more provinces (Edo period)
- —国守governor of a province (under the ritsuryō system); daimyo with a domain of one or more provinces
- —国光national glory; Ralls Genet (cultivar of apple); Ralls Janet; Rawls Jennet
- —国利national interests
- —国使envoy
- —国典national law; laws of a nation; national rites and ceremonies; Japanese literature
- —国法national law
- —国華national pride
- —国恩one's debt to one's country