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米国

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 米国 – see 米國. (This term, 米国, is the simplified form of 米國.)
Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
米	国
べい Grade: 2	こく Grade: 2
on'yomi

Etymology

The second kanji character in 亜米利加 ‎(America, “America”) + 国 ‎(koku, “country”). The reason the second character is used instead of the first is because 亜 is already in use as the abbreviation for 亜細亜 ‎(Ajia, “Asia”).

Pronunciation

On'yomi
(Tokyo) べいこく [bèékókú] (Heiban - [0])
IPA^(key): [be̞ːko̞kɯᵝ]

Proper noun

米国 ‎(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 米國, hiragana べいこく, romaji Beikoku)

the United States of America

Synonyms

アメリカ (America)