Jisho

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9 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
so-and-so, one, a certain, that person
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2106 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 某 【ボウ】 certain, one, I, me
  • 某月 【ボウゲツ】 a certain month
  • 某々 【ボウボウ】 so-and-so
  • 何がし 【ナニガシ】 certain amount, some, certain person, Mr So-and-so, a certain ..., I, me

Kun reading compounds

  • 某 【それがし】 someone, unknown person, I, me
  • 何がし 【なにがし】 certain amount, some, certain person, Mr So-and-so, a certain ..., I, me
  • 何の某 【なんのなにがし】 certain person, certain amount

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mou3
Korean:
mo, mae

Spanish

  • fulano de tal
  • cierta persona
  • tal

Portuguese

  • assim-e-assim
  • um
  • um certo
  • aquela pessoa

French

  • untel
  • un certain
  • cette personne
1811 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1784 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2989 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1470 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1425 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1494 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1593 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1759 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1059 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3168 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1630 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2216 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1775 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14618 Morohashi
2560 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2628 New Nelson (John Haig)
1759 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1896 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1271 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1964 2001 Kanji
4a5.33 The Kanji Dictionary
2-5-4 SKIP code
4490.4 Four corner code
1-43-31 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
67d0 Unicode hex code

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