Word Meaning 鎖国

さこく sakoku

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

Meaning

English

  1. national isolation
  2. closing the country (to foreigners)
  3. sakoku
  4. 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 5313 Priority A

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

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)

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

みつにゅうごく

smuggling oneself into a country

我が国

わがくに

our country

Example Sentences

1

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