国
Country / Nation
くに · こく
A square boundary — four walls forming a contained space with something inside.
Draw four walls around something and you have created an enclosure. A room. A field. A country. A garden. This radical 囗 is pure boundary — it surrounds, contains, and defines. Anything enclosed, bordered, or held within a frame traces back to this simple square.
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