country

Builds 123 distinct compound words — ranked #27 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: コク
訓 kun: くに

A country. 外国 a foreign country, 国語 the national language, 中国 China.

The ten most common compounds built on 国. Tap any word that leads to another mapped character to follow it.

123compounds built

2,152times those words occur

#16by productivity alone

#55by how often it turns up

Where 国 leads

Other characters from the top 100 that share a word with 国. Each one opens its own map.

人person外国人#1 中middle; inside中国、中国語#18 家house; family国家#22 合fit together合衆国#25 語language; word; tell外国語、中国語#53 外outside; foreign外国、外国人、外国語#61

Words built on 国

国くに497 uses

外国がいこく215 uses

国民こくみん104 uses

中国ちゅうごく99 uses

外国人98 uses

英国えいこく86 uses

外国語62 uses

合衆国がっしゅうこく55 uses

米国べいこく52 uses

国家こっか34 uses

Counts from the Tanaka Corpus index via Tatoeba, 1,178,504 words of segmented Japanese. Tatoeba sentences are contributed by learners and teachers, so frequencies reflect textbook Japanese rather than a general corpus. Compound readings are generated — from the corpus where it records one, otherwise from a tokenizer — and are omitted rather than guessed where neither resolves the word. Character meanings and on/kun readings are written by hand.