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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
- —国連本部United Nations (UN) Headquarters
- —国境越えcross-border
- —国家神道State Shintō; nationalistic and ideological form of Shinto, abolished in 1945
- —密入国者illegal immigrant
- —国境紛争international border dispute
- —国会答弁answers in the Diet
- —正式国名official name of a country
- —四国地方Shikoku region (incl. Tokushima, Kagawa, Ehime and Kochi prefectures)
- —国籍留保reservation of Japanese nationality (procedure used with children born outside Japan)
- —中東諸国Middle East countries
- —国際警察international police
- —国際緊張international tension; international tensions
- —西国巡礼pilgrimage of the Saigoku-Sanjūsansho (33 temples in the Kinki region)
- —三国時代Three Kingdoms period (of Chinese history, 220 CE-280 CE); Three Kingdoms period (of Korean history, 57 BCE-668 CE)
- —祖国戦争Patriotic War (Russian name for the war with Napoleon in 1812)
- —三国干渉Triple Intervention (diplomatic intervention by Russia, Germany and France over the terms of the Treaty of Shimonoseki)
- —出国査証departure permit; exit visa
- —チョン国Korea
- —国民国家nation-state
- —五代十国Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period (of China; 907-979)