国語

See also: 国语 and 國語

Japanese

Kanji in this term
国	語
こく Grade: 2	ご Grade: 2
on’yomi

Etymology

From 国 (koku, “nation”) +‎ 語 (go, “language”). The sense of "Mandarin" is derived from Taiwanese usage of the identical Chinese word 國語／国语 (guóyǔ).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) こくご [kòkúgó] (Heiban – [0])[1]

IPA^(key): [ko̞kɯ̟ᵝɡo̞]

Noun

国語 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 國語, hiragana こくご, rōmaji kokugo)

national language
２ (に)か国語 (こくご)放 (ほう)送 (そう)
nika kokugo hōsō
bilingual broadcast
(specifically) the Japanese language
国語 (こくご)辞 (じ)典 (てん)
kokugo jiten
dictionary of the national language; Japanese dictionary
Mandarin; Standard Mandarin
(Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

日 (に)本 (ほん)語 (ご) (nihongo, “Japanese”)

References

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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