国会|こっかいkokkai[0]heiban (flat)

JLPT N3approx.Common
Definitions
  1. nounNational Diet; legislative assembly of Japan (1947-)
    火曜日かようびに国会こっかいが開ひらかれる。↗
    The Diet will meet on Tuesday.
  2. nounImperial Diet; legislative assembly of Japan (1889-1947)
  3. nounlegislative assembly; parliament; congress
Synonyms & antonyms
  • Synonym議会ぎかいWrittenLiterary in register, 議会 is a general noun for a legislative assembly; unlike 国会, it is not the proper name of Japan's national legislature.

Use 国会 for Japan's legislature by name — the National Diet since 1947 or, historically, the Imperial Diet; choose 議会 for a legislative assembly in general, in a literary register.

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Japanese definitions
  1. 国くにの議会ぎかい。
  2. 日本にっぽんにおいては国くにの唯一ゆいいつの立法りっぽう機関きかん。日本にっぽん国こく憲法けんぽうでは国権こっけんの最高さいこう機関きかんとされる。衆議院しゅうぎいんと参議院さんぎいんより構成こうせいされる。
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