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56 word matches found for '国' using reading 'くに'
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Most common form: 我が国
expression, noun
our country; our land; one's own country
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noun
1. country  (honorific)
2. Japan  (honorific)
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0
noun
China; Korea  (archaic)
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noun
1. that country
2. nirvana  (archaic)
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0
noun
1. your native country; your hometown  (honorific)
2. my home country (i.e. Japan)  (polite (teineigo) language)
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noun
fairyland; never-never land
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noun
hades; realm of the dead; the next world  (see also: 黄泉)
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noun
Yasukuni Shrine
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4
noun
national language; local dialect  (see also: 国言葉; polite (teineigo) language)
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noun
secular country
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noun
warmonger
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expression
each ministry thinks only of its own good, but not of the good of the country; when there are ministries, there is no country
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noun
underworld  (see also: 根の国; archaic)
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noun
land of everlasting summer
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4
noun
boasting of one's hometown
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noun
Yasukuni (Shrine)  (see also: 靖国神社; abbreviation)
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noun
Japanese (language)  (see also: 日本語; archaic)
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Most common form: 日出づる国
noun
Land of the Rising Sun
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noun
Japan  (archaic)
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3
noun
Japan, the Land of Abundant Rice
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0
noun
distant country; heaven; hades
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1
noun
underworld  (archaic)
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noun
Okuni kabuki; progenitor of modern kabuki, developed by Izumo Taisha shrine maiden Izumo no Okuni and popularized in Kyoto (early Edo period)
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noun
Japan  (archaic)
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3
noun
national or local pride; the pride of one's native place
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noun
Oncorhynchus nerka kawamurae (rare Japanese subspecies of sockeye salmon)  (often written with kana only)
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noun
province-wide uprising (Muromachi period); provincial revolt
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3
noun
dialect; accent
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Most common form: 国国
noun
countries
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noun or verb acting prenominally
of the land  (archaic)
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