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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
- —建国者founder (of a nation)
- —日本国Japan
- —隷属国subject nation; subordinate state; dependency
- —旧国名place names used during the ritsuryō period
- —国交相Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation
- —国民食food universally loved by all citizens; comfort food
- —国衙領provincial governorate (beginning in the late Heian period)
- —熱帯国tropical country
- —国粋的nationalistic; ultranationalistic
- —被爆国country that has been a victim of nuclear bombing
- —分国法laws established by daimyo applicable only in their own domain (during the Warring States period)
- —国防相defense minister; defence minister
- —無国境borderless
- —脱国境weakened border; porous border; open border
- —自国民citizens of one's own country; fellow countrymen; compatriots
- —島嶼国island country
- —仏教国Buddhist country
- —二国論two-country model (esp. China and Taiwan); two-country doctrine
- —国立大national university
- —製造国country of manufacture