Word Meaning 国会

こっかい kokkai

国会 is read as こっかい (kokkai) and means Imperial Diet.

Meaning

English

  1. Imperial Diet
  2. legislative assembly of Japan (1889-1947)
  3. National Diet
  4. legislative assembly of Japan (1947-)
  5. legislative assembly
  6. parliament
  7. congress

Reading

Kana

こっかい

Romaji

kokkai

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 14 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N4 Jōyō Grade 2 Kanken 9級 Rank 1754 Priority A

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

国家公安委員会

こっかこうあんいいんかい

National Public Safety Commission

国民体育大会

こくみんたいいくたいかい

National Athletic Meet

国連安保理事会

こくれんあんぽりじかい

United Nations Security Council

国会対策委員会

こっかいたいさくいいんかい

committee of the National Diet

国際応用心理学会

こくさいおうようしんりがっかい

International Association of Applied Psychology

国際連合安全保障理事会

こくさいれんごうあんぜんほしょうりじかい

United Nations Security Council

国会議員

こっかいぎいん

member of the Diet

国会議事堂

こっかいぎじどう

parliament building

国防会議

こくぼうかいぎ

(Japanese) National Defense Council (1956-86) (Defence)

日本外国特派員協会

にほんがいこくとくはいんきょうかい

Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan

国立

こくりつ

national

国家

こっか

state

Example Sentences

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The Diet is now in session.

The prime minister dissolved the Diet.

The Diet will meet on Tuesday.

The bill passed the Diet.

The Diet broke up in confusion.

Did you listen to the parliamentary debate?

Ryuutarou Hashimoto has been appointed the 82nd prime minister of the National Diet of Japan.

The Japanese Dentists Association affair is an incident concerning secret donations from the Japanese Dentists Association to Diet members belonging to the LDP.