國教

Chinese

country; state; nation teach; teaching; religion
trad. (國教)
simp. (国教)

Etymology

The sense "education provided by the state" is attestable in pre-Qin texts. The sense of "state religion" is Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 国教 (こっきょう) (kokkyō).

Pronunciation


Noun

國教

  1. state religion
  2. (literary) education provided by the state
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