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邦

Home Country
Stroke count: 7

Readings

On readingホウ
Kun readingくに

Meanings

  1. home countryRtK
  2. japan
  3. country
  1. state
  2. region
  3. national government
  4. central government

Radicals and components

Radical邑city
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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bushes · city walls

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1991

Compound words

彼は1950年代にソビエト連邦へ逃亡した。
He defected to the Soviet Union in the 1950's.tatoeba
私はソビエト連邦のことはまったく知らない。
I don't know about the USSR at all.tatoeba
巨大な連邦財政赤字がアメリカ経済を長年に渡って苦しめている。
A huge federal budget deficit has been plaguing the American economy for many years.tatoeba
どこで邦貨をドルに変えられるか。
Where can we exchange yen into dollars?tatoeba

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

ミクロネシア連邦の首都はパリキールである
みくろねしあれんぽうのしゅとはぱりきーるであるThe capital of the Federated States of Micronesia is Palikir
ジャンムー・カシミール連邦直轄領の夏季における首府はシュリーナガルである
じゃんむー・かしみーるれんぽうちょっかつりょうのかきにおけるしゅふはしゅりーながるであるThe summer capital of the Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory is Srinagar.
アラブ首長国連邦の首都はアブダビである
あらぶしゅちょうこくれんぽうのしゅとはあぶだびであるThe capital of the United Arab Emirates is Abu Dhabi.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

7 strokes

Country; Japanese (our own). 丰 (lush growth) + ⻏ (settlement) — land where people grow and live.

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 邦

Draw with a guide, then from memory — checked at every step