邦
ホウ, くに
home country, country, Japan
JLPT1 G7 S7 F654
The relevant oracle bone form of this character is as per 丰# (cone-shaped, fruit-bearing ears of grain) + 田 field. A bronzeware inscription form replaces 田 with 邑 village/settlement → platform built upon a cone-shaped mound of earth that proclaims (to the gods) the ownership of a particular area of land (compare 封) → *country* → *Japan*.
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