Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
enclosure
Parts:
Variants:
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

12 strokes
Radical:
mouth, opening
Parts:
miss, mourning
Kun:
On:
ソウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
885 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 喪 【モ】 mourning, calamity, misfortune
  • 喪失 【ソウシツ】 loss, forfeit
  • 大喪 【タイソウ】 funeral service of a Japanese emperor, Imperial mourning
  • 国喪 【コクソウ】 national mourning

Kun reading compounds

  • 喪 【も】 mourning, calamity, misfortune
  • 喪主 【もしゅ】 chief mourner
  • 服喪 【ふくも】 going into mourning

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
sang1, sang4
Korean:
sang

Spanish

  • perder
  • perder a alguien

Portuguese

  • perda
  • luto

French

  • perte
  • deuil
1522 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1614 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
117 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1572 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1141 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1678 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1793 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1807 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
332 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3504 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1807 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2459 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1945 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
3985 Morohashi
2825 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
853 New Nelson (John Haig)
1926 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2076 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1510 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1465 2001 Kanji
3b9.20 The Kanji Dictionary
2-9-3 SKIP code
2-2-11 SKIP code
4073.2 Four corner code
1-33-51 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
55aa Unicode hex code