国境

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 国境 – see 國境 (“border of a country”). (This term is the simplified form of 國境).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
国	境
こく > こっ Grade: 2	きょう Grade: 5
on’yomi

Alternative spelling
國境 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  國境／国境 (guójìng).

Noun

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