全国

Chinese

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

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

Japanese

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ぜんこく [zéꜜǹkòkù] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [d͡zẽ̞ŋko̞kɯ̟]

Etymology 1

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

Alternative spelling
全國 (kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese 全國 (MC dzjwen kwok, literally “whole country”).

First attested in the mid-1800s.^[3]

Noun

全(ぜん)国(こく) • (zenkoku) 

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

Etymology 2

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

Alternative spelling
全國 (kyūjitai)

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Noun

全(ぜん)国(ごく) • (zengoku) 

1. Alternative form of 全国 (zenkoku)

Usage notes

• The zengoku reading is much less common than the above and is not included in any monolingual Japanese dictionary, including the Nihon Kokugo Daijiten.^[3]

References

1. Hirayama, Teruo, editor (1960), 全国アクセント辞典 (Zenkoku Akusento Jiten, “Nationwide Accent Dictionary”) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Tōkyōdō, →ISBN
2. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
3. “全国”, in 日本国語大辞典‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006