Kanji
Readingごく
Frequency5%
Used in (87 in total)
China; Chūgoku region (western part of Honshu comprising the prefectures of Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tottori and Shimane); central part of a country; main region; province of the second lowest rank (ritsuryo system)
paradise; heaven; Kingdom of Heaven
neighbouring country; neighboring country; adjacent country
home country; one's own country; suzerain country (from the perspective of the vassal state); colonizing country; country of one's ancestors; this country
both countries; Ryōgoku (area of Tokyo)
country in civil war; country disarrayed by war; Warring States period (Japan, China); competiton in which there are several evenly-matched participants; hotly-contested game (match, market, etc.)
entry into a country
Warring States period (of Japanese history, approx. 1467-1568 CE); Sengoku period; Warring States period (of Chinese history, 403-221 BCE); era of vicious competition
three countries; Three Kingdoms (in China, 220 CE-280 CE); Three Kingdoms (in Korea, 57 BCE-668 CE); (arch.) Japan, China and India; (arch.) Japan, Korea and China
southern country; southern provinces; southern lands
eastern country; eastern provinces; Kanto provinces
Chinese (language)
island country
western part of Japan (esp. Kyushu, but ranging as far east as Kinki); western nations (esp. India or Europe); thirty-three temples in the Kinki area containing statues of Kannon (Avalokitesvara); pilgrimage to the thirty-three temples sacred to Kannon
Records of the Three Kingdoms; Annals of the Three Kingdoms
departure from a country
smuggling oneself into a country; illegal immigration
territory; fiefdom; feudal domain
distant land; remote country; province far from the capital
daimyo in the Warring States period
one's native country; land of one's birth
pedestrian mall; car-free mall; (lit.) pedestrian paradise
Chūgoku region (western part of Honshu comprising the prefectures of Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tottori and Shimane)
Chinese (lineage, ancestry, ethnicity, etc.); Sino-
neighboring country; neighbouring country; provinces close to Kyoto (under ritsuryo system)
(going straight) from heaven to hell
half a kuni (province)
turbulent (troubled) times; turbulent war period
Three Kingdoms period (of Chinese history, 220 CE-280 CE); Three Kingdoms period (of Korean history, 57 BCE-668 CE)
unparalleled in Japan and China and India
the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period (Chinese history)
mainland China; China proper
(the three) Baltic states; Baltic countries
to go to heaven; to be called to heaven
Triple Intervention (diplomatic intervention by Russia, Germany and France over the terms of the Treaty of Shimonoseki)
pilgrimage of the Saigoku-Sanjūsansho (33 temples in the Kinki region)
Chūgoku Retaliation (military maneuver by Hideyoshi Hashiba in 1582)
Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (1851-1864)
the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period (Chinese history)
warm country; warm region
national of a third country; foreigner (esp. Chinese and Korean) resident in Japan
imported (transmitted) from China
Japanese orphans left behind in China (after WWII); war-displaced Japanese in China
Chinese room (artificial intelligence thought experiment)
Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party)
thirty-three temples in the Kinki area containing statues of Kannon (Avalokitesvara)
national of a third country; foreigner resident in Japan (esp. Chinese and Korean)
one's country of assignment (e.g. for an ambassador)
Seven Warring States (Chinese history); Seven Kingdoms
Triple Entente (Great Britain, France, and Russia)
sinophone world; Chinese-speaking world
Chinese alcohol; Chinese spirits
Tripartite Pact (between Japan, Germany and Italy in WWII)
sinology; Chinese studies
Chinese white pear (Pyrus x bretschneideri); ya pear; pearple
pseudo-Chinese; Japanese written without kana for intelligibility in Chinese
War of the Triple Alliance (1864-1870); Paraguayan War
unparalleled in Japan and China and India