Kana: くに

country

Example sentence

日本は美しい国です。

にほんはうつくしいくにです。

Japan is a beautiful country.

What 国 means

(くに) is a Japanese word meaning “country”. It belongs to the Places & Travel topic and appears at Level 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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