Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 2

JLPT level: N5

3 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 8

Meaning: country

Kunyomi: くに

Onyomi: コク

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: くにがまえ

Meaning: enclosure

Strokes: 3

Examples

Examples with audio

際(こくさい)   international

立(こくりつ)   nationally owned (institution)

会(こっかい)   parliament

(しこく)   Shikoku

(かんこく)   South Korea

(ちゅうごく)   China

主義(ていこくしゅぎ)   imperialism

する(きこくする)   return to one's own country

する(にゅうこくする)   enter a country

(くに)   country

々(くにぐに)   countries

(しまぐに)   island country

Onyomi Examples

コクエキ national interest

コクエイ government management, state management

最恵 サイケイコク most favored nation, most favoured nation, MFN

イコク foreign country

Kunyomi Examples

くに country, state, region, national government, central government, home (i.e. hometown, home country), province (of Japan), land, earth

こくじん indigenous 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)

おくに your native country, your hometown, my home country (i.e. Japan), countryside, country, daimyo's territory (Edo period)

うつしくに world of mankind, this world