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.

Alternative spelling
全國 (kyūjitai)

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

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

全(ぜん)国(こく) • (zenkoku)

Alternative spelling
全國 (kyūjitai)

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全(ぜん)国(ごく) • (zengoku)

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]

^ Hirayama, Teruo, editor (1960), 全国アクセント辞典 (Zenkoku Akusento Jiten, “Nationwide Accent Dictionary”) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Tōkyōdō, →ISBN
^ 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
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 “全国”, in 日本国語大辞典‎^[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006