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

10 strokes
Radical:
rice
Parts:
Variants:
chic, style, purity, essence, pith, cream, elite, choice
Kun:
いき
On:
スイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1768 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 粋 【スイ】 essence, the best, cream, chic, smart, stylish, tasteful, refined, sophisticated, considerate, understanding, thoughtful, tactful, familiar with worldly pleasures (esp. sexual relations, geisha districts and red-light districts)
  • 粋が身を食う 【スイガミヲクウ】 too much pleasure ruins a man (esp. in reference to spending too much time with geisha and prostitutes), playing the dandy ruins a man
  • 国粋 【コクスイ】 national characteristics
  • 清粋 【セイスイ】 elegance

Kun reading compounds

  • 粋 【いき】 chic, smart, stylish, tasteful, refined, sophisticated, understanding, considerate, thoughtful, sensible, familiar with worldly pleasures (esp. sexual relations, geisha districts and red-light districts)
  • 粋がる 【いきがる】 to be pretentious, to put on airs, to try to appear smart, to act brave, to try to look cool
  • 不意気 【ぶいき】 vulgar, unrefined

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
cui4, sui4
Korean:
su

Spanish

  • elegancia
  • estilo
  • esencia

Portuguese

  • chique
  • estilo
  • pureza
  • essência
  • supra-sumo
  • a nata
  • elite
  • selecionados

French

  • élégance
  • chic
  • style
  • pureté
  • essence
  • élite
  • de choix
1455 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1537 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3467 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1790 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1610 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1132 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1708 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1825 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1069 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1494 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1645 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
871 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1188 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
934 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
26875 Morohashi
1293 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4389 New Nelson (John Haig)
925 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
993 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1377 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1055 2001 Kanji
6b4.5 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-4 SKIP code
9494.1 Four corner code
1-31-72 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7c8b Unicode hex code