Lingaku国【くに】
Frequency rank: 220.
- country; state
- region
- national government; central government
- home (i.e. hometown, home country)
- province (of Japan)historical termsee also 国郡里制
- land; eartharchaism
noun (common) (futsuumeishi)
Forms
- 国【くに】Frequency rank: 220.
- 邦【くに】
- 國【くに】Frequency rank: 34,168. – 34,520.
- くにFrequency rank: 22,528. – 22,662.
Generated definitions (experimental)
- country; state
- region
- national government; central government
- home (i.e. hometown, home country)
- province (of Japan)
- land; earth
This meaning refers to a country or state as a political entity.
He says he wants to travel around and see new countries abroad.
This meaning refers to a specific geographical area or region.
This meaning refers to the national or central government of a country.
This meaning refers to one's home, hometown, or home country.
This meaning refers to a province in Japan, which is a secondary administrative division.
This meaning refers to the land or earth, in a broad and general sense.
Generated collocations (experimental)
くに国をまもる守るto protect the countryがいこく外国のくに国foreign countryこくみん国民のこえ声voice of the peopleくに国をほこりにおもう誇りに思うto take pride in one's countryこっかい国会national parliamentぼこく母国motherlandこっきょう国境national borderこくさいかんけい国際関係international relationsくに国のだいひょう代表representative of the countryこくりつこうえん国立公園national parkちいき地域のくに国regional countryくに国をあいする愛するto love one's countryくに国のれきし歴史history of the countryこくさいほう国際法international lawこくさいもんだい国際問題international issues
Wiktionary definitions (experimental)
Example sentences
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"From the North Country" is a TV drama produced by Fuji TV and set in Furano in Hokkaido.
The meaning of the 'dollar peg' is "stick with the strong countries."
At this rate, the risk is high that our country's competitive position will drop even further.
Great Britain is a land of gentlemen and horse riding.
Hasn't it been solved yet? Whose responsibility is it, the prefecture's or the country's?
The bidet-toilet itself has not spread much outside of Japan.
To start with, the film crew travelled around the country looking for locations.
Whether it's national economics, family economics, or personal economics, it's not something where sloppy accounting is good enough.
I dream of a society whose wealth is distributed fairly.
The king of this country isn't a person, but a divine beast with three pairs of wings said to be in far away in the sky.
The talented finance minister's ingenuity has helped his bankrupt nation to get out of the red.
Interest in baseball cuts across classes and ages in this country.
18. ほん本をよんで読んでみると、しょくみん植民しゃ者やぼうけんか冒険家があらた新たなすばらしい素晴らしいせいかつ生活、あらた新たなくに国やちゃんすチャンスなどにむかって向かってふなで船出していったようである。
It seems, from books, that the colonizers and adventurers went sailing off to a new fine life, a new country, opportunities, and so forth.
It seems that the rich part of humanity doesn't care much for the problems of the poor part.