China

See also: china

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -aɪnə

Etymology

From Persian چینی (čīnī, “Chinese; porcelain”), compound of چین (čīn, “China”) and the suffix ـی (-ī), from Middle Persian 𐭰𐭩𐭭 (čīn, “China”), ultimately from Sanskrit चीन (cīna).

Typically thought to be derived from the Qin (Wade-Giles: "Ch'in") Dynasty (秦朝), though some suggested Jin (Wade-Giles: "Chin") (晋) instead since in ancient Chinese "Qin" had a voiced intial consonant.

Proper noun

China

1. A country in East Asia, officially named the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国).
2. A region in East Asia comprising the areas governed by the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan).
3. The civilization of the Chinese people.
4. (very rarely) A female given name.

Derived terms

Terms derived from "China"

China Hand Chinaman China syndrome

Chinese

sinophobia

Translations

country in east Asia

• Abkhaz: Чынҭ (Č̍ənt)
• Afrikaans: Sjina, China
• Albanian: Kina (sq)
• Amharic: ቻይና (čayəna)
• Arabic: اَلصِّين f (aṣ-ṣīn)

  Egyptian Arabic: الصين f (eṣ-ṣīn)

• Armenian: Չինաստան (Čʿinastan)
• Asturian: China (ast) f
• Azeri: Çin (az)

  Cyrillic: Чин

• Bashkir: Ҡытай (Qïtay)
• Basque: Txina
• Bavarian: Kina
• Belarusian: Кіта́й m (Kitáj)
• Bengali: চীন (cin), গণচীন (gôncin)
• Bulgarian: Кита́й (bg) m (Kitáj)
• Burmese: တရုတ် (my) (ta.rut), တရုတ်နိုင်ငံ (ta.rutnuingngam)
• Buryat: Хитад (Xitad)
• Catalan: Xina (ca) f
• Chechen: Китай (Kitaj)
• Cherokee: ᏥᎾ (tsina)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 中國, 中国 (zung1 gwok3)

  Mandarin: 中國 (zh), 中国 (zh) (Zhōngguó)

  Min Nan: 中國 (zh-min-nan), 中国 (Tiong-kok)

  Wu: 中國, 中国 (tson55 koq21)

• Czech: Čína (cs) f
• Danish: Kina (da)
• Dhivehi: ޗައިނާ (cainā), ސީނުކަރަ (sīnukara)
• Dutch: China (nl) n
• Dzongkha: རྒྱ་ནག (rgya nag), རྒྱ་མི (rgya mi)
• Erzya: Китай (Kitaj)
• Esperanto: Ĉinio, Ĉinujo, Ĥinujo
• Estonian: Hiina (et)
• Faroese: Kina n
• Finnish: Kiina (fi)
• French: Chine (fr) f
• Galician: China (gl) f
• Georgian: ჩინეთი (č’inet’i)
• German: China (de) n
• Greek: Κίνα (el) f (Kína)
• Guernésiais: Chaenne f
• Gujarati: ચીન (čin)
• Hausa: Sin
• Hawaiian: Kina
• Hebrew: סִין (he) f (sin)
• Hindi: चीन (hi) m (cīn)
• Hungarian: Kína (hu)
• Icelandic: Kína (is) n
• Ido: Chinia (io)
• Indonesian: Cina, China, Tiongkok (id)
• Interlingua: China
• Interlingue: China
• Irish: An tSín, Daon-Phoblacht na Síne f
• Italian: Cina (it) f
• Japanese: 中国 (ja) (ちゅうごく, Chūgoku)
• Jèrriais: Chinne f
• Kalenjin: Chaina
• Kalmyk: Китд (Kitd)
• Kamba: Chaina
• Kannada: ಚೀನಾ (cīnā), ಚೀನ (kn) (cīna)
• Karachay-Balkar: Къытай
• Kashmiri: चीन (cīn)
• Kazakh: Қытай (Qıtay), Жұңго (Juñgo)
• Khmer: ចិន (km) (chən)
• Kikuyu: Chaina
• Komi-Permyak: Кина (Kina)
• Komi-Zyrian: Китай (Kitaj)
• Korean: 중국 (ko) (Jungguk) (中國 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: Çîn (ku)

  Sorani: چین (Çîn)

• Kyrgyz: Кытай (Kıtay), Жуңго (Cuñgo)
• Lao: ຈີນ (lo) (chīn), ປະເທດຈີນ (pa thēt chīn)
• Latin: Sina f
• Latvian: Ķīna (lv) f

• Lezgi: Чин (Čin)
• Lithuanian: Kinija (lt)
• Lojban: djunguos
• Luhya: Chaina
• Luo: Chaina
• Lü: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: Ки́на (mk) f (Kína)
• Malagasy: Sina
• Malay: Negara China, China, Cina
• Malayalam: ചൈന (ml) (caina)
• Maltese: iċ-Ċina f
• Marathi: चीन (čīn)
• Meru: Chaina
• Middle Persian: 𐭰𐭩𐭭 (Čīn)
• Mirandese: China f
• Moksha: Китай (Kitaj)
• Mongolian: Хятад (Hjatad), Дундад улс (Dundad uls)

  Uyghurjin: (Inner Mongolia) ᠬᠢᠲᠠᠳ (Kitad), ᠳᠤᠮᠳᠠᠳᠤ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ (Dumdadu ulus)

• Navajo: Tsiiʼyiishbizhí Dinéʼiʼ Bikéyah
• Nepali: चीन (cīn)
• Norman: Chène f
• Norwegian: Kina (no)
• Novial: China
• Oriya: ଚୀନ (čīn)
• Ossetian: Китай (Kitaj)
• Palauan: Sina
• Pashto: چين (ps) (Čīn), ختاي (Ḫatāy)
• Persian: چین (fa) (Čin)
• Polish: Chiny (pl) pl
• Portuguese: China (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਚੀਨ (čīn)
• Romanian: China f
• Russian: Кита́й (ru) m (Kitáj), (poetic) Поднебе́сная f (Podnebésnaja), Среди́нное Ца́рство n (Sredínnoje Cárstvo) (Middle Kingdom)
• Rusyn: Кіта́й m (Kitáj), Чі́на f (Čína)
• Sanskrit: चीन m (cīna)
• Scots: Cheenae
• Scottish Gaelic: Sìona f, Sìna f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Кина f

  Roman: Kina (sh) f

• Sinhalese: චීනය (cīnaya)
• Slovak: Čína f
• Slovene: Kitájska f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Chinska f

  Upper Sorbian: China f

• Spanish: China (es) f
• Swahili: Uchina
• Swedish: Kina (sv)
• Tagalog: Tsina
• Tajik: Чин (Čin), Хитой (Xitoy)
• Tamil: சீனா (ta) (cīṉā)
• Tatar: Кытай (Qıtay)
• Telugu: చైనా (te) (cainā)
• Thai: จีน (th) (jeen), ประเทศจีน (th) (bprà-tâyt jeen)
• Tibetan: རྒྱ་ནག (rgya nag), ཀྲུང་གོ (krung go)
• Turkish: Çin (tr)
• Turkmen: Hytaý, Çin (tk)

  Cyrillic: Хытай, Чин

• Tuvan: Кыдат (Kydat)
• Udmurt: Китай (Kitaj)
• Ukrainian: Кита́й (uk) m (Kytáj)
• Urdu: چین m (cīn)
• Uyghur: خىتاي (xitay), جۇڭگو (junggo)
• Uzbek: Xitoy (uz)

  Cyrillic: Хитой

• Vietnamese: Trung Quốc (vi) (中國), Trung Hoa, Tàu (vi)
• Welsh: Tsieina
• Yakut: Кытай (Kıtay)
• Yiddish: כינע f (khine)
• Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
• Zulu: IShayina

region corresponding to the People's Republic of China and Taiwan

• Afrikaans: Sjina
• Arabic: اَلصِّين f (aṣ-ṣīn)
• Armenian: Չինաստան (Čʿinastan)
• Basque: Txina
• Catalan: Xina (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 中國 (zh), 中国 (zh) (Zhōngguó)

• Danish: Kina (da)
• Estonian: Hiina (et)
• Finnish: Kiina (fi)
• Hawaiian: Kina
• Hindi: चीन (hi) (čīn)
• Indonesian: Tiongkok (id)
• Irish: An tSín f
• Japanese: 中国 (ja) (ちゅうごく, Chūgoku)
• Khmer: ចិន (km) (jen)
• Korean: 중국지역 (junggukjiyeok) (中國地域)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: Çîn (ku)

  Sorani: چین (Çîn)

• Macedonian: Кина (mk) f (Kina)
• Malay: China
• Marathi: चीन (čīn)
• Navajo: Tsiiʼyiishbizhí Dinéʼiʼ Bikéyah
• Norwegian: Kina (no)
• Persian: چین (fa) (čīn)
• Polish: Chiny (pl) pl
• Portuguese: China (pt) f
• Romanian: China f
• Russian: Кита́й (ru) m (Kitáj)
• Sanskrit: चीन (cīna)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Кина f

  Roman: Kina (sh) f

• Slovene: Kitájska f
• Somali: Shiinaha
• Swedish: Kina (sv)
• Urdu: چین (čīn)
• Vietnamese: Trung Quốc (vi) (中國), Trung Hoa, Tàu (vi)

civilisation of the Chinese people

• Afrikaans: Sjina
• Arabic: اَلصِّين f (aṣ-ṣīn)
• Catalan: Xina (ca) f
• Danish: Kina (da)
• Finnish: Kiina (fi)
• Indonesian: Tiongkok (id)
• Irish: An tSín f
• Khmer: ចិន (km) (jen)
• Korean: 중국문명 (junggungmunmyeong) [中華文明]
• Macedonian: Кина (mk) f (Kina)

• Malay: Cina
• Persian: چین (fa) (čīn)
• Portuguese: China (pt) f
• Russian: Кита́й (ru) m (Kitáj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Кина f

  Roman: Kina (sh) f

• Slovene: Kitájska f
• Swedish: Kina (sv)
• Vietnamese: Trung Quốc (vi), Trung Hoa, Tàu (vi)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Breton: ^{(please verify)} Sina
• Dhivehi: ^{(please verify)} ސީނުކަރަ (sīnukara)
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} China

See also

• Appendix:Place names in China
• Appendix:Countries of the world
• Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó
• Zhōngguó
• Cathay
• China in world languages
• all the tea in China
• made in China

Anagrams

• chain

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Afrikaans

Wikipedia ^af

Alternative forms

• Sjina

Etymology

From Dutch China.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃi.na]

Proper noun

China

1. China

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Asturian

Wikipedia ^ast

Proper noun

China f

1. China (country in east Asia)

Related terms

• chinu

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Dutch

Wikipedia ^nl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃinaː/

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Proper noun

China n

1. China (country)

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German

Wikipedia ^de

Pronunciation

• (standard, Northern Germany) IPA^(key): /ˈçiːna/

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• (colloquially) IPA^(key): /ˈʃiːna/
• (Southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland) IPA^(key): /ˈkiːna/

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Proper noun

China n (genitive Chinas)

1. China (country)

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Indonesian

Wikipedia ^id

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃaɪ̯nə/

Proper noun

China

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

Alternative forms

• Cina

Usage notes

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.

Derived terms

• bahasa China

See also

• Tiongkok

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Interlingua

Wikipedia ^ia

Proper noun

China

1. China (country)

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Malay

Wikipedia ^ms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

China

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

Alternative forms

• Cina

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Portuguese

Wikipedia ^pt

bandeira da China

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

China f

1. China (country)

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Romanian

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

China f

1. China (country)

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Spanish

Wikipedia ^es

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃina/

Proper noun

China f

1. China (country)

Related terms

• chino, china