noun
Historical or formal name for France; modern Japanese normally uses フランス. Still seen in older documents, formal titles, or set phrases.
See also: フランス
仏国革命は世界史の転換点だった。
The French Revolution was a turning point in world history.
この書物は仏国から伝わった。
This book was introduced from France.
Old-character variant using 佛 and 國; encountered in pre-war texts.
The standard modern name for France. 仏国 is an older, more formal term now largely replaced by フランス in everyday use.
Abbreviation of 仏蘭西 (furansu), an old ateji spelling for France, combined with 国 (country). The reading ふっこく is a contraction of ふつこく, which itself derives from the older reading of 仏 as ふつ.