くに

Japanese

Etymology 1
For pronunciation and definitions of くに – see the following entry.
【国】2
[noun] a land, a large place
[noun] a country in general, a region
[noun] a country as in a nation, a state
[noun] the office of emperor, the crown; affairs of state
[noun] a province of ancient Japan
[noun] the national government in ancient Japan; the national capital in ancient Japan
[noun] one's birthplace, where one is from, one's home
Alternative spelling
邦
(This term, くに, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
For a list of all kanji read as くに, see Category:Japanese kanji read as くに.)

Etymology 2
Alternative spelling
訓

From 訓 (kun, “native Japanese reading”), with an epenthetic vowel -i added, in turn from Middle Chinese 訓 (MC xjunH).[1]

Attested in the Utsubo Monogatari.[1]

Noun

くに • (kuni) 

  1. (obsolete) the native Japanese reading

References
  1. “くに 【訓】”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”) Paid subscription required‎ (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000, released online 2007, →ISBN, concise edition entry available here (Note: Dialectal meanings, etymological theories, pronunciation including modern, dialectal, and historical information, Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai, historical dictionaries containing this word, and the kanji spellings in those dictionaries have been omitted.)
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