America

The Japanese word 米国 meaning "America" also translates as "United States, USA, United States of America" and is composed of the kanji 米 (read bei) meaning "rice, USA" and 国 (read koku) meaning "country". One also commonly sees America translated to katakana as アメリカ (read amerika) and less commonly the archaic kanji form 亜米利加 (Read amerika).