Jisho

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国

8 strokes
Radical:
enclosure 囗
Parts:
丶 囗 王
Variants:
國 圀
country
Kun:
くに
On:
コク
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
3 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 国益 【コクエキ】 national interest
  • 国営 【コクエイ】 government management, state management
  • 最恵国 【サイケイコク】 most favored nation, most favoured nation, MFN
  • 異国 【イコク】 foreign country

Kun reading compounds

  • 国 【くに】 country, state, region, national government, central government, home (i.e. hometown, home country), province (of Japan), land, earth
  • 国人 【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)
  • お国 【おくに】 your native country, your hometown, my home country (i.e. Japan), countryside, country, daimyo's territory (Edo period)
  • 現国 【うつしくに】 world of mankind, this world

Readings

Japanese names:
くな、 こ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
guo2
Korean:
gug

Spanish

  • país

Portuguese

  • País
  • terra
  • nação

French

  • pays
79 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
136 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
123 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
8 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1037 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
111 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
36 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
745 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.11 Japanese for Busy People
40 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
40 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
151 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
344 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3831 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1964 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2659 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
588 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
4752 Morohashi
3087 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
950 New Nelson (John Haig)
581 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
624 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
158 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3172 2001 Kanji
3s5.1 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-5 SKIP code
6010.3 Four corner code
1-25-81 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
56fd Unicode hex code

税

12 strokes
Radical:
grain 禾
Parts:
儿 并 口 禾
tax, duty
On:
ゼイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N2
289 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 税 【ゼイ】 tax
  • 税関 【ゼイカン】 customs, customs house
  • 地方税 【チホウゼイ】 local tax, council tax
  • 納税 【ノウゼイ】 payment of taxes

Readings

Japanese names:
さい
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shui4
Korean:
se, tal

Spanish

  • impuesto
  • arancel

Portuguese

  • imposto
  • dever

French

  • taxe
  • droits
826 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
750 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
727 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
383 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3287 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
488 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
782 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1642 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
399 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
403 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
670 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1438 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1525 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
807 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1101 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
904 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
25070P Morohashi
1191 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4146 New Nelson (John Haig)
895 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
961 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
755 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2257 2001 Kanji
5d7.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-5-7 SKIP code
2891.6 Four corner code
1-32-39 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7a0e Unicode hex code