Illustration: A traveler with a scuffed international suitcase has just reached their family's house in a Japanese coastal town. An elderly parent steps through the open gate into a tight embrace, while the traveler still holds an old family photograph showing them as a child at this same entrance.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

祖そ国こく

sokoku

homeland

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれらは祖国そこくを守まもった。

    They defended their country.

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  2. 私わたしは祖国そこくを愛あいしている。

    I love my motherland.

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  3. 彼かれらは祖国そこくを捨すてた。

    They abandoned their country.

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Kanji in 祖国

  • 祖ancestor; pioneerOnソ
  • 国countryOnコクKunくに

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