国
Let’s learn Japanese kanji 国 !
今回の漢字は『国』。
国 - くに a country
国政 -こくせい government, administration
国粋主義 - こくすいしゅぎ nationalism
狂信的国粋主義者 - きょうしんてきこくすいしゅぎしゃ a fanatical (ultra) nationalist
国賊 - こくぞく a traitor to the country, a rebel
※ 民主主義 - みんしゅしゅぎ democracy
「雪国」- ゆきぐに Snow Country, famous novel by the Japanese Nobel Prize winner Kawabata Yasunari 川端康成
諺
Japanese proverb 諺：
国滅びて山河あり - くにほろびてさんがあり The land outlasts the king.
(lit. You can destroy the country, yet its mountains and rivers will remain.)
This proverb originates from the opening line of the famous poem Spring Gazing 春望 by Ancient Chinese poet Du Fu (Tu Fu、杜甫 ), 712-770. The line goes as follows:
國破山河在
The state broken, its mountains and rivers remain
(translated by Stephen Owen; The Poetry of Du Fu, 2016 (p.258, poem 4.25)