| 日本国志 | 
Rì běn Guó zhì | 
A Record of Japan, by Huang Zunxian 黄遵宪, an extended analysis of Meiji Japan | 
| 日 | 
Rì | 
abbr. for 日本, Japan | 
| 日 | 
rì | 
sun / day / date, day of the month | 
| 日本 | 
Rì běn | 
Japan | 
|  本 | 
běn | 
(bound form) root; stem / (bound form) origin; source / (bound form) one's own; this / (bound form) this; the current (year etc) / (bound form) original / (bound form) inherent / originally; initially / capital; principal / classifier for books, periodicals, files etc | 
|  本国 | 
běn guó | 
one's own country | 
|   国 | 
Guó | 
surname Guo | 
|   国 | 
guó | 
country; nation; state / (bound form) national | 
|    志 | 
zhì | 
aspiration / ambition / the will | 
|    志 | 
zhì | 
sign / mark / to record / to write a footnote |