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国語 こくご N3

  1. national language
  2. Japanese language (esp. as a school subject in Japan)
  3. mother tongue; one's native language
  4. native Japanese words (as opposed to loanwords and Chinese-derived words)

国語辞典 こくごじてん

  1. Japanese-language dictionary
  2. dictionary of a national language

国語仮名遣い こくごかなづかい

  1. kana orthography (esp. historical) of native Japanese words

国語国字問題 こくごこくじもんだい

  1. issues pertaining to a nation's script (e.g. standardization of kanji in Japanese)

国語学 こくごがく

  1. Japanese linguistics; Japanese philology

国語学会 こくごがっかい

  1. Society for the Study of Japanese Language

国語教育 こくごきょういく

  1. Japanese language education (for Japanese people); teaching of Japanese

国語研究所 こくごけんきゅうじょ

  1. Kokken; NINJAL; National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

国語科 こくごか

  1. Japanese language (as a school subject in Japan)

国語辞書 こくごじしょ

  1. Japanese-language dictionary
  2. dictionary of a national language
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A free dictionary built on open data (JMdict, KANJIDIC2, Tatoeba). Try a word like 食べる, a kanji like 水, or find a kanji by its parts in the radical search. New to kana, kanji or JLPT? Read the glossary, or see fudami and its data sources.