Japanese word
日本
にほん
In your course · Chapter 4
- Part of speech
- proper noun
- Level
- A1
- Frequency
- No. 20 in the course corpus
Meanings
- Japan
Source: Tonada course
Kanji
- 日
- On reading:
- ジツ、ニチ
- Kun reading:
- -か、-び、ひ
- Meanings:
- day, sun, Japan, counter for days
- 本
- On reading:
- ホン
- Kun reading:
- もと
- Meanings:
- book, present, main, origin, true, real, counter for long cylindrical things
Source: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))