Kanji
Readingくに
Frequency26%
Used in (91 in total)
country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); (arch.) province (of Japan)
national border; provincial border
our country; our land; one's own country
country; territory; domain; realm
all over the country; everywhere in the country; throughout the nation
your native country; your hometown; my home country (i.e. Japan); countryside; country; (arch.) daimyo's territory (Edo period)
land of the gods; Japan; Heaven
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)
to manage a state; to govern a country
one's home; hometown; native place; birthplace
that country; (arch.) nirvana
dreamworld; dreamland; la-la land
national character; regional character
regional administrator (pre-Taika hereditary title)
hades; realm of the dead; the next world
national customs and manners; provincial song or ballad; waka (classical Japanese poetry, as opposed to Chinese poetry)
nation building
to betray one's country (to an enemy)
Yasukuni (Shrine)
Toyo (former province located in present-day Ōita and Fukuoka prefectures; later split into Buzen and Bungo provinces); affluent country; rich country
fairyland; never-never land
Okuninushi; deity of magic and medicine later viewed as equivalent to Daikokuten and celebrated at Izumo Grand Shrine
one's home; one's native province
distant country; heaven; hades
Okuninushi; deity of magic and medicine later viewed as equivalent to Daikokuten and celebrated at Izumo Grand Shrine
forced relocation of a daimyo to a different domain (Edo period); change of constituency (politician); change of district
spacious country
gods of the land; earthly deities
visiting one's constituency; (arch.) feudal lord's return to his estate
provincial samurai
hades; realm of the dead; the next world
Kibi (former province located in present-day Okayama and parts of Hiroshima, Hyōgo and Kagawa prefectures; later split into Bizen, Bitchu and Bingo provinces)
provincial dialect; local accent
country; Japan
Country of Na (a country that existed within Japan during the Yayoi period)
boasting of one's hometown
local dialect; vernacular; provincialism
Land of the Rising Sun
land of everlasting summer
Tsukushi (former province that was split up into Chikuzen and Chikugo)
national or local pride; the pride of one's native place
province-wide uprising (Muromachi period)
destroy a country, but its mountains and rivers remain; the land outlasts the king
one's native dialect
Oncorhynchus nerka kawamurae (rare Japanese subspecies of sockeye salmon)
China; Korea
local dialect; vernacular; provincialism; national language
Hi (former province located in present-day Nagasaki, Saga and Kumamoto prefectures; later split into Hizen and Higo provinces)
Japan, the Land of Abundant Rice
unavailability of online content or services in one's country (e.g. due to licensing agreements); geo-blocking
prosperity of a country
one's hometown; one's birthplace; one's native region
Kuninotokotachi no Mikoto (eternal god of the land)
Okuni kabuki; progenitor of modern kabuki, developed by Izumo Taisha shrine maiden Izumo no Okuni and popularized in Kyoto (early Edo period)
kanji "box" or "country" radical (radical 31); radical consisting of an enclosing box
with one's country in ruins
provincial maps of Japan (Edo period)
of the land
underworld; netherworld
foreign country; province outside Kinai
country code
country or region name used for people (in the Heian period court)
Kuni no Katachi Kenkyūkai (faction of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan); Kan faction; Kan group
each ministry thinks only of its own good, but not of the good of the country; (lit.) when there are ministries, there is no country
people of a country
Japanese (language)
country bumpkin; someone from the same part of the country
birthplace; hometown
god who controls a country's territory; god who rules a country
list of province names
Kunimi Station (Kōchi)
Mikuni Station (Osaka)
Kodomonokuni Station