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
- —偽中国語pseudo-Chinese; Japanese written without kana for intelligibility in Chinese
- —太平天国Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (1851-1864)
- —国際恋愛international romantic relationship
- —三国無双unparalleled in Japan, China and India
- —国公私立national, public, and private
- —帝国臣民imperial subject
- —バハマ国Commonwealth of The Bahamas
- —帝国軍人imperial soldier; soldier in an imperial army
- —国際小包international parcel post (Japan Post international mail service for packages weighing less than 30 kg)
- —国際比較international comparison; country-by-country comparison
- —世俗国家secular state; secular nation
- —国外逃亡fleeing the country
- —国策会社government-controlled corporation
- —中所得国middle-income country
- —国外退去deportation
- —一国両制one country, two systems (Chinese policy)
- —百年国恥century of humiliation (in Chinese history)
- —利付国債interest-bearing government bonds
- —国会招致summons to appear before the Diet
- —国内留学studying (temporarily) at another institution (in the same country as the institution one belongs to); studying or researching at an institution while still employed