国境

Chinese
For pronunciation and definitions of 国境 – see 國境 (“border”).
(This term, 国境, is the simplified form of 國境.)
Notes:

Japanese
Kanji in this term
国 境
こく > こっ
Grade: 2		 きょう
Grade: 5
on’yomi

Etymology

From Sinitic 國境.

Pronunciation

Noun

国境 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 國境, hiragana こっきょう, rōmaji kokkyō)

  1. a national or country border, a frontier

Derived terms
  • 国 (こっ)境 (きょう)なき医 (い)師 (し)団 (だん) (Kokkyō Naki Ishidan): Doctors Without Borders, Médecins Sans Frontières
  • 国 (こっ)境 (きょう)税 (ぜい) (kokkyōzei), 国 (こっ)境 (きょう)関 (かん)税 (ぜい) (kokkyō kanzei): a border tariff, border customs: a tax paid on foreign goods crossing a border
  • 国 (こっ)境 (きょう)税 (ぜい)関 (かん) (kokkyō zeikan): a border or frontier customs house, a building or facility used to inspect goods and levy appropriate customs tariffs; the border customs officials or authorities
  • 国 (こっ)境 (きょう)警 (けい)備 (び)兵 (へい) (kokkyō keibi hei): a border or frontier guard, a soldier guarding a border or frontier
  • 国 (こっ)境 (きょう)線 (せん) (kokkyōsen): a border, a border line
  • 国境地帯 (こっきょうちたい) (kokkyō chitai): a border or frontier region, the region along a border
  • 国 (こっ)境 (きょう)地 (ち)方 (ほう) (kokkyō chihō): a border region, a region abutting a border: a borderland
  • 国 (こっ)境 (きょう)紛 (ふん)争 (そう) (kokkyō funsō): a border dispute
  • 国境貿易 (こっきょうぼうえき) (kokkyō bōeki): border or frontier trade

References
  1. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
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