Illustration: At a Japanese community center's geography activity table, a child places one wooden marker on each of three countries on an unlettered world map: Japan, Australia and Italy. National borders are clearly drawn, and the markers sit within the countries rather than on cities or travel routes.

JLPT N3counterLevel estimated by Bebop

カ国こく

kakoku

counter for countries

Example sentences

  1. 僕ぼくは三さんカ国こく語ごを話はなす。

    I speak three languages.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 彼女かのじょは５カ国こくで暮くらしていた。

    She had lived in five different countries.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 最終的さいしゅうてきに世界せかい62ヶ国かこくに作品さくひんの上映権じょうえいけんを売うった。

    He ended up selling the film rights to 62 countries around the world.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 国

  • 国countryOnコクKunくに

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