Chinese

Japanese

Etymology

From Sinitic 國境.

Pronunciation

• On'yomi
• (Tokyo) こっきょう [kòkkyóó] (Heiban - [0])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ko̞k̚kjo̞ː]

Noun

国境 ‎(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 國境, hiragana こっきょう, romaji kokkyō)

1. a national or country border, a frontier

Derived terms

• 国境 (こっきょう)なき医師団 (いしだん) ‎(Kokkyō Naki Ishidan): Doctors Without Borders, Médecins Sans Frontières
• 国境税 (こっきょうぜい) ‎(kokkyōzei), 国境関税 (こっきょうかんぜい) ‎(kokkyō kanzei): a border tariff, border customs: a tax paid on foreign goods crossing a border
• 国境税関 (こっきょうぜいかん) ‎(kokkyō zeikan): a border or frontier customs house, a building or facility used to inspect goods and levy appropriate customs tariffs; the border customs officials or authorities
• 国境警備兵 (こっきょうけいびへい) ‎(kokkyō keibi hei): a border or frontier guard, a soldier guarding a border or frontier
• 国境線 (こっきょうせん) ‎(kokkyōsen): a border, a border line
• 国境地帯 (こっきょうちたい) ‎(kokkyō chitai): a border or frontier region, the region along a border
• 国境地方 (こっきょうちほう) ‎(kokkyō chihō): a border region, a region abutting a border: a borderland
• 国境紛争 (こっきょうふんそう) ‎(kokkyō funsō): a border dispute
• 国境貿易 (こっきょうぼうえき) ‎(kokkyō bōeki): border or frontier trade

References

1. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3