China

• Chin (obsolete)

From Portuguese China, perhaps from Hindi चीन (cīn) and ultimately from Sanskrit चीन (cīna, “the Chinese; China”) of uncertain etymology. It is usually thought to be derived from 秦 (qín, “Qin”), Middle Chinese: 秦 (MC d͡ziɪn), Old Chinese: 秦 (OC *zin), the westernmost ancient Chinese state, but other theories have been proposed, including derivation from 晉／晋 (jìn, “Jin”), Middle Chinese: 晉 (MC t͡siɪn^H), Old Chinese: 晉 (OC *ʔsins), 荊／荆 (jīng, “Jing”), or the Zina of 夜郎 (Yèláng, “Yelang”). See "Names of China" at Wikipedia.

• (UK, US) enPR: chī'nə, IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃaɪnə/, [ˈt͡ʃ(ʰ)aɪ̯nə]

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• Rhymes: -aɪnə

China (usually uncountable, plural Chinas)

1. A nation or civilization occupying the country around the Yellow, Yangtze, and Pearl Rivers in East Asia, taken as a whole under its various dynasties and inclusive of Taiwan.

   Synonyms: Cathay (used for medieval northern China, now archaizing), greater China (inclusive of Taiwan, non-Han autonomous regions, and the SARs, but not always all Chinese claims), Han, Han Chinese civilization

   • 1555, Richard Eden translating Peter Martyr as The Decades of the Newe Worlde..., folio 230 verso:

     The great China, whose kyng is thought... the greatest prince in the worlde.

   • 1884, Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

     If he tells them to build a palace forty miles long, out of di'monds, and fill it full of chewing gum, or whatever you want, and fetch an emperor's daughter from China for you to marry, they've got to do it—and they've got to do it before sun-up next morning, too.

2. The People's Republic of China, the principal state in this country.

   Synonyms: Celestial Kingdom, Flowery Kingdom, Middle Kingdom

   • 1971 December 6, "A Size-up of President Nixon: Interview with Mike Mansfield, Senate Democratic Leader", in US News & World Report, p. 61:

     'Only a Nixon' Could Go to China

   • 2017, Donald J. Trump, speech at Make America Great Again Rally, Harrisburg, PA

     And I met with the President of China at great length in Florida, and we had long, long talks—hours and hours and hours.

3. Synonym of mainland China

   from Macau to China

4. (obsolete) A Chinese person.
5. (obsolete) Alternative form of cheyney: woollen stuff; items made or filled with cheyney.
6. (botany) Clipping of China rose: various flowers.
7. (botany, beverages) Clipping of China tea.
8. (rhyming slang) Alternative form of china: a mate, a friend.
9. (rare) A female given name.
   • 2001, Susan Wittig Albert, Bloodroot, Berkley Publishing Group, →ISBN, chapter 1, 3:

     My name is China Bayles. I'm the owner of Thyme and Seasons and the co-owner, with Ruby Wilcox, of a new tearoom called Thyme for Tea.

   • 2014 Neil D. A. Stewart, The Glasgow Coma Scale, Constable & Robinson, →ISBN, page 159:

     'What's her name, this girl?' The fight had hoarsened Lynne's voice, and the words came out strangely staccato - a wooden doll that had just learned to speak.

     'China,' he mumbled, feeling an obscure desire to invent a pseudonym for her.

     'What an interesting name.'

     Angus struck the table edge hard. 'Aw, don't gies it.'

     'I don't know what you mean. Or is it a nickname? Fragile, is she?'

10. Towns in Maine and Texas in the United States.
11. A town in Nuevo León in Mexico.

• (principal states at different periods): Xia, Shang, Zhou (kingdoms); Qin, Han, Jin, Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing (empires); Warring States, Three Kingdoms (regions); Republic of China or Chinese Republic, People's Republic of China or Chinese People's Republic

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  An 1844 map of China (i.e., the Qing Empire), including Taiwan, Mongolia, Korea, eastern Manchuria (now Russian), and Assam in India.
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  A 1932 map of the Far East, showing China (i.e., China Proper) without Manchuria, Mongolia (i.e., Greater Mongolia), "Sinkiang", "Tibit", or Japanese Taiwan.
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  A map of the divisions of the Republic of China in 1944, from the American propaganda film Why We Fight: The Battle of China.
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  The CIA's 2008 map of China, showing the PRC's claim on Taiwan (but not the South China Sea) and India's claim on the PRC (but not China's on Arunachal Pradesh).
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  A 2002 map of the railways of China, showing the PRC and ROC's nine-dash claim in the South China Sea. Both Chinas also claim the "Diaoyu" Islands, currently administered as Japan's Senkakus.

• Appendix:Place names in China
• Appendix:Countries of the world
• "Names of China" and "China in world languages" at Wikipedia

• Chain, Chian, chain

• Sjina

From Dutch China.

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃi.na]

China

1. China

China f

1. China (country in east Asia)

• chinu

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃinaː/

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China n

1. China (country)

• IPA^(key): /ˈçiːna/, /ˈʃiːna/

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• (southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland) IPA^(key): /ˈkiːna/

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China n (genitive Chinas, plural China)

1. China (country)

• The plural China refers to the People's Republic of China (German: Volksrepublik China (short: VR China), Festlandchina, Rotchina) and the Republic of China (Taiwan) (German: Republik China (auf Taiwan), Inselchina).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃiːna/

China n

1. China (country)

   Das waar im China gemach. ― This was made in China.

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

From English China.

• Cina

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃaɪ̯nə/

China

1. (nonstandard, now possibly derogatory) China (country)
2. (nonstandard, now possibly derogatory) Chinese (language)

In Indonesia, this term is still also in common use, but (as of March 2014) it is rarely used by most Indonesian-language media and is no longer used by the Indonesian Government because of the extremely offensive nature of the standard form Cina.

• bahasa China

• Tiongkok

China

1. China (country)

• Cina

From English China, from Middle Persian [script needed] (ṣīn, “Chinese; porcelain”), probably from Sanskrit चीन (cīna, “a people of south-eastern Tibet”).

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃinə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃina/
• Rhymes: -inə, -nə, -ə

China

1. China (country)
2. Chinese (language)

Perhaps from Hindi चीन (cīn) and ultimately from Sanskrit चीन (cīna).

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃi.nɐ/
• Hyphenation: Chi‧na

China f

1. China (a country in Asia)

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:China.

Ultimately from Sanskrit चीन (cīna).

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• IPA^(key): /ˈki.na/

China f

1. China (country)

• chinez

• cinie

From Chinese 秦.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃina/

China f

1. China (country)

• chino, china

China

1. Alternative form of Uchina