Kanji1 / 8
国 kanji
country
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
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On readings
コク
Kun readings
くに
Variant forms
囶圀國Words with 国
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —内国債internal debt or loans
- —戦勝国victorious nation
- —外国債foreign loan; foreign debt; foreign bond
- —接受国receiving country; receiving state; host nation
- —農業国agricultural country; agrarian nation
- —好戦国warlike nation
- —老大国once-powerful nation now in decline; great nation grown old
- —英数国English, mathematics and Japanese (as school subjects)
- —外国勢(group of) foreigners; foreign contingent; foreign participants; foreign competitors; foreign players; foreign teams; foreign companies
- —軍国調wartime atmosphere
- —国防論the question of national defense (defence)
- —三国志Records of the Three Kingdoms (Chinese historical text)
- —開催国host country (e.g. for a conference)
- —国語学Japanese philology; Japanese linguistics
- —国際線international air route
- —国内線domestic air route; domestic airline (company)
- —国内法municipal (civic) law; domestic law; national law
- —参加国participating nation
- —全国紙national paper; paper with a national circulation
- —当事国countries concerned (involved)