国“country” Kanjikuni / koku
How to write 国
Meaning and readings
Meaning
country
Onyomi (音読み)
- こく koku
Chinese reading
Kunyomi (訓読み)
- くに kuni
Japanese reading
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Human-reviewed sentence pairs from the Tatoeba corpus, with readings shown above the kanji.
あの電話で外国に電話ができますか？
Can I make an international call with that phone?
外国 (がいこく)
メアリーは中国語がわかります。
Mary understands Chinese.
中国語 (ちゅうごくご)
あなたは中国人ですか、それとも日本人ですか。
Are you Chinese or Japanese?
中国人 (ちゅうごくじん)
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