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
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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

19 strokes
Radical:
jade (king) 玉 (王)
Parts:
Variants:

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 璽 【ジ】 emperor's seal
  • 璽書 【ジショ】 document with the emperor's seal
  • 霊璽 【レイジ】 something worshiped as a symbol for the spirit of the dead, imperial seal
  • 国璽 【コクジ】 great seal, seal of state

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xi3
Korean:
sae, sa

Spanish

  • sello imperial

Portuguese

  • selo imperial

French

  • sceau impérial
1329 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
2019 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
71 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1866 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1537 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2860 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1887 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2057 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1947 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1314 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3624 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1854 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2527 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1506 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
21309 Morohashi
2911 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3683 New Nelson (John Haig)
2075 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2194 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1916 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3272 2001 Kanji
4f14.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-14-5 SKIP code
1010.3 Four corner code
1-28-05 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
74bd Unicode hex code