全国

全国

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 全国 – see 全國 (“national; the whole country; the entire nation”). (This term, 全国, is the simplified form of 全國.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
全	国
ぜん Grade: 3	こく Grade: 2
on’yomi

Kanji in this term
全	国
ぜん Grade: 3	こく > ごく Grade: 2
on’yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ぜ​んこく [zéꜜǹkòkù] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
• IPA^(key): [d͡zẽ̞ŋko̞kɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

全国 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 全國, hiragana ぜんこく, rōmaji zenkoku, alternative reading ぜんごく, rōmaji zengoku)

1. the whole country; the entire nation
2. nationwide; countrywide
3. (chiefly) all of Japan

References

1. Hirayama, Tetsuo (1960) 全国アクセント辞典 (Nationwide Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: 東京堂,.