こくり

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of こくり – see the following entry.
高句麗
[noun] something very unfortunate and scary
[proper noun] (rare) (historical) Goguryeo (an ancient kingdom in modern Korea, one of the Three Kingdoms, existing from 37 BCE to 668 C.E.; at its maximum covering all of North Korea, the northern part of South Korea, parts of Manchuria in northeast China, and parts of Primorsky Krai in Russia)
(This term, こくり (kokuri), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)