Word Meaning 鎖国

さこく sakoku

鎖国 is read as さこく (sakoku) and means national isolation.

Meaning

English

national isolation
closing the country (to foreigners)
sakoku
policy of national isolation enacted by the Tokugawa shogunate

Reading

Kana

さこく

Romaji

sakoku

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 26 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N1 Jōyō Upper grade Kanken 4級 Antonyms 開国 Rank 5016 Priority A

Related Vocabulary

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鎖国政策

さこくせいさく

(national) isolationism

鎖国主義

さこくしゅぎ

(national) isolationism

情報鎖国

じょうほうさこく

country closed to information from the outside world

パラダイス鎖国

ぱらだいすさこく

isolation paradise (esp. unique products without foreign competition)

鎖

くさり

chain

鎖骨

さこつ

collarbone

鎖式化合物

さしきかごうぶつ

open-chain compound

鎖状化合物

さじょうかごうぶつ

open-chain compound

鎖付図書

くさりつきとしょ

chained library

鎖伝動

くさりでんどう

chain drive

密入国

みつにゅうこく

smuggling oneself into a country

我が国

わがくに

our country

Example Sentences

まぁ、日本も鎖国していたわけだしなあ。

Well, after all Japan also cut itself off from the world.