Vocabulary

What does 国会 (こっかい, kokkai) mean?

国会 (こっかい, kokkai) means the Diet (Japan's parliament).

Quick facts
Readingこっかい
Romajikokkai
Part of speechnoun
Level (estimated, JLPT framework)N3
こっかい
N3 · estimated, JLPT frameworkCommonkokkai

the Diet (Japan's parliament)

  1. 1noun National Diet; legislative assembly of Japan (1947-)
  2. 2noun Imperial Diet; legislative assembly of Japan (1889-1947)
  3. 3noun legislative assembly; parliament; congress

Example sentences

  • The National Diet is in Tokyo.

  • There's a meeting at the National Diet today.

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Entries, readings and English glosses: JMdict — Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group (EDRDG), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and their translations written by GoMe.

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