"くに" meaning in Japanese

See くに in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: kuni [romanization]
Etymology: From 訓 (kun, “native Japanese reading”), with an epenthetic vowel -i added, in turn from Middle Chinese 訓 (MC xjunH). Attested in the Utsubo Monogatari. Etymology templates: {{ja-see|国}}, {{der|ja|ltc|-}} Middle Chinese, {{ltc-l|訓}} 訓 (MC xjunH) Head templates: {{ja-noun}} くに • (kuni)
  1. (obsolete) the native Japanese reading Wikipedia link: Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, Utsubo Monogatari Tags: obsolete
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Alternative forms

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Download raw JSONL data for くに meaning in Japanese (1.2kB)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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