Kanji Detail for 郡 - "county, district, region"

郡

Jōyō Kanji
Kyōiku Kanji

JLPT N1

ES grade 4

Meaning
郡 means "county, district, region."
1. County - An administrative district.
2. District - A region; an area.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

county; district

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

administrative division

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

canton; county; region

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

county, region, administrative division

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

A name for a regional administrative division. There have been many changes through dynasties. One system had commanderies under counties: Zhou system had the Son of Heaven's territory of one thousand li divided into a hundred counties, each county having four commanderies. Another system had counties under commanderies: Qin unified the empire and established 36 commanderies to govern the counties. After Han, this was continued. In Ming and Qing, prefectures were also called 郡. This is the case.
Onyomi

gun(ぐん)

kun(くん)
Kunyomi

koori(こおり)
Strokes

10 strokes
Radical

邑阝 (ozato・mura)
Related Keywords
county district region area prefecture administrative division territory zone locality province municipality jurisdiction domain sector ward borough rural local community