Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

654 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 7

Meaning: home country, country, Japan

Kunyomi: くに

Onyomi: ホウ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: town (阝 right)

Examples

Onyomi Examples

ホウガク Japanese music (esp. traditional Japanese music)

ホウガ Japanese film, Japanese painting

トウホウ Oriental country, the Orient

ユウホウ friendly nation

Kunyomi Examples

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