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
- —傾国傾城woman so glamorous as to bring ruin to a country (castle) as its king (lord) is captivated by her beauty; femme fatale
- —傾城傾国woman so glamorous as to bring ruin to a country (castle) as its king (lord) is captivated by her beauty; femme fatale
- —小国寡民small country with a small population (The Chinese philosopher Lao-tze's ideal of a state)
- —二大強国(the) two great powers
- —外国生活life in a foreign country; living abroad
- —異国趣味taste for the exotic; infatuation with a foreign way of life; exoticism
- —一国一城(possession of) one feudal domain and one castle; being independent (acting without compromise or assistance); establishing only one castle in each feudal domain (edict issued by the shogunate in 1615)
- —慨世憂国worrying about the conditions of the country out of sheer patriotism
- —救国済民saving a nation and providing relief to the people
- —空転国会stalled session of the Diet (Japanese Parliament)
- —経国済民governing a nation and providing relief to people
- —国威発揚enhancing national prestige; expanding national influence
- —国際感覚cosmopolitan (international) way of thinking; feeling for the wider world
- —国際場裡the international arena
- —国際力学dynamics of international (foreign) relations
- —国色無双(a woman of) unparalleled beauty; (a woman's beauty being) matchless throughout the land
- —国家存亡the fate of a nation; life-or-death (situation) for a nation; national crisis
- —国家多事eventful times for the nation; the nation being in turmoil; the storm clouds gathering in the land
- —春秋戦国the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period (Chinese history)
- —諸国漫遊tour around the country; travelling to various provinces