国
guó
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 國
A country or nation; it mostly appears inside other words rather than alone. Many country names end in it, 中国 'China' first of all; 外国 means 'a foreign country' and 回国 'to go back to your own country'. 你是哪国人？ asks where someone is from.
Nước, quốc gia; chữ này chủ yếu nằm trong từ ghép, ít khi đứng một mình. Nhiều tên nước kết thúc bằng nó, trước hết là 中国 (Trung Quốc); 外国 là “nước ngoài”, 回国 là “về nước”. Hỏi quốc tịch thì nói 你是哪国人？ (bạn là người nước nào?).
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “国” mean?
A country or nation; it mostly appears inside other words rather than alone. Many country names end in it, 中国 'China' first of all; 外国 means 'a foreign country' and 回国 'to go back to your own country'. 你是哪国人？ asks where someone is from.
Is “国” formal or informal?
国 is generally neutral.