Kanji1 / 8
国 kanji
country
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
コク
Kun readings
くに
Variant forms
囶圀國Words with 国
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —国体Popularnational polity; National Athletic Meet
- —国学Popularstudy of classical Japanese literature and culture; provincial school (established under the ritsuryō system for educating children of district governors); school (of a provincial capital during the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties)
- —国軍Popularnational armed forces
- —国権Popularpower of the state; national sovereignty; sovereign rights
- —国情Popularconditions of a country
- —国人Popularindigenous person; inhabitant of a country; local; native; local lords and samurai; daimyo who did not leave his domains to meet the shogun in Kyoto (during the Muromachi period)
- —国対PopularCommittee of the National Diet
- —国論Popularpublic opinion
- —敵国Popularenemy nation
- —立国Popularfounding of a nation
- —カ国Popularcounter for countries
- —外国語Popularforeign language
- —韓国語PopularKorean (language; esp. as spoken in South Korea)
- —共和国Popularrepublic; commonwealth
- —国慶節Popularanniversary of founding (of PRC); national celebration time
- —国際化Popularinternationalization; internationalisation
- —国際的Popularinternational; worldwide; cross-border; cosmopolitan
- —国際法Popularinternational law; law of nations
- —国税局Popularrevenue office; taxation bureau
- —国税庁PopularNational Tax Agency (Japan); national taxation agency (e.g. IRS)