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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
- —コンゴ自由国Congo Free State (1885-1908 name of the Belgian Congo)
- —国家情報長官Director of National Intelligence (USA); DNI
- —国際女性デーInternational Women's Day
- —国際婦人デーInternational Women's Day
- —イスラム国家Islamic state (state where shari'a law is enforced); Islamic country
- —国家非常事態state of national emergency
- —国家戦略特区national strategic special zone
- —カリフ制国家caliphate; caliphate state
- —国際連合条約United Nations convention
- —国際組織犯罪transnational organized crime; TOC
- —国際保健規則international health regulations
- —国連中心主義policy of alignment with the United Nations; UN-centrism
- —国語仮名遣いkana orthography (esp. historical) of native Japanese words
- —三国同盟戦争War of the Triple Alliance (1864-1870); Paraguayan War
- —一国社会主義one-state socialism (Stalinist theory); socialism in one country
- —国民社会主義Nazism; national socialism
- —国家資本主義state capitalism; national capitalism
- —入国者収容所immigration detention center
- —上代東国方言eastern old Japanese
- —アンドラ公国Principality of Andorra