わがくに

Japanese

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我が国

Alternative spellings
我が国我国吾が国吾国わが国

From Old Japanese. First attested in the Kojiki of 712 CE with the phonetic spelling 和賀久邇.^[1]

Nominal phrase, composed of 我 (wa, “I, me”) +‎ が (ga, genitive or possessive particle in Old Japanese) +‎ 国 (kuni, “country, nation”).^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

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わがくに • (wa ga kuni)

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 “我が国”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎^[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
^ “我が国”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎^[2] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN