Word Meaning 北朝鮮

きたちょうせん kitachousen

北朝鮮 is read as きたちょうせん (kitachousen) and means North Korea.

Meaning

English

  1. North Korea

Reading

Kana

きたちょうせん

Romaji

kitachousen

Stroke Sequence

3 Characters • 34 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N1 Jōyō Upper Grade Kanken 4級 Rank 9420 Priority B

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

北朝鮮人

きたちょうせんじん

North Korean person

北朝鮮難民救援基金

きたちょうせんなんみんきゅうえんききん

Life Funds for North Korean Refugees

北鮮

ほくせん

North Korea

朝鮮

ちょうせん

Korea

南朝鮮

なむちょそん

South Korea

ヘル朝鮮

へるちょそん

Hell Korea (satirical term used to criticize the socioeconomic situation in South Korea)

李氏朝鮮

りしちょうせん

Joseon dynasty (of Korea; 1392-1910)

北朝

ほくちょう

Northern Dynasties (of China; 420-589)

朝鮮民主主義人民共和国

ちょうせんみんしゅしゅぎじんみんきょうわこく

Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea)

朝鮮半島

ちょうせんはんとう

Korean peninsula

在日朝鮮人

ざいにちちょうせんじん

Korean person residing in Japan (esp. a North Korean national who came to Japan before 1945 or a descendant of such a person)

朝鮮人民軍

ちょうせんじんみんぐん

Korean People's Army

Example Sentences

9

かれはきたちょうせんのれきしをけんきゅうしている。

He studies the history of North Korea.

I'm North Korean.

Pyongyang is the capital of North Korea.

North Korea and South Korea are neighbors.

There's no McDonald's in North Korea.

That's just how cunning North Korea is (and China, too).

Today's topic is "the problem of Japanese people abducted by North Korea".

The Yalu River is located on the China–North Korea border and is an important boundary river between Liaoning Province in China and North Korea.

With North Korea's announcement on the 26th of its nuclear development plan based upon the agreement stemming from the Six Party Talks, and the United States' commencement of procedures to remove North Korea from its designation on the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism, the families of abductees have expressed growing unease that it may constitute an abandonment of the abductee issue.