Japanese

Noun

売国 ‎(hiragana ばいこく, romaji baikoku)

1. selling out one's nation, treason

   それは売国 (ばいこく)行為 (こうい)だ。

   Sore wa baikoku kōi da.

   That's like selling out the country.

Compounds

• 売国奴 (ばいこくど) ‎(baikokudo, “traitor”)

References

1. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

• 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, ISBN 4095102535.