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).

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.

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 (čayna)
• Arabic: الصين f (al-ṣīn)

  Egyptian Arabic: الصين f (el-ṣīn)

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

  Cyrillic: Чин

• Bashkir: Ҡытай (Qïtay)
• Basque: Txina
• Bavarian: Kina
• Belarusian: Кітай m (Kitáj)
• Bengali: চীন (cin), গণচীন (gôncin)
• Bulgarian: Китай (bg) m (Kitáj)
• Burmese: တရုတ် (my) (tăyouq), တရုတ်နိုင်ငံ (tăyouq-nain-gan)
• Catalan: Xina (ca) f
• 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)

• Czech: Čína (cs) f
• Danish: Kina (da)
• Dhivehi: ޗައިނާ (čainā), ސީނުކަރަ (sīnukara)
• Dutch: China (nl) n
• Dzongkha: རྒྱ་ནག (rgya nag), རྒྱ་མི (rgya mi)
• 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)
• 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
• 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
• Kamba: Chaina
• Kannada: ಚೀನಾ (čīnā), ಚೀನ (kn) (čīna)
• Kashmiri: चीन (cīn)
• Kazakh: Қытай (Qıtay), Жұңго (Juñgo)
• Khmer: ចិន (km) (chən)
• Kikuyu: Chaina
• Korean: 중국 (ko) (Jungguk) (中國 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: Çîn (ku)

  Sorani: چین (Çîn)

• Kyrgyz: Кытай (Kıtay), Жуңго (Cuñgo)
• Lao: ຈີນ (lo) (ciin)

• Latin: Sina f
• Latvian: Ķīna (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Kinija (lt)
• Lojban: djunguos
• Luhya: Chaina
• Luo: Chaina
• Macedonian: Кина (mk) f (Kína)
• Malagasy: Sina
• Malay: Negara China, China, Cina
• Malayalam: ചൈന (ml) (čaina)
• Maltese: iċ-Ċina f
• Marathi: चीन (čīn)
• Meru: Chaina
• Middle Persian: 𐭰𐭩𐭭 (Čīn)
• 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: Китай (ru) m (Kitáj), (poetic) Поднебесная f (Podnebésnaja), Срединное Царство n (Sredínnoje Cárstvo) (Middle Kingdom)
• Rusyn: Кітай m (Kitáj)
• Sanskrit: चीन m (čīna)
• Scots: Cheenae
• Scottish Gaelic: Sìona f, Sìna f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Кина f

  Roman: Kina f

• Sinhalese: චීනය (cīnaya)
• Slovak: Čína f
• Slovene: Kitájska 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) (čainā)
• Thai: จีน (th) (jeen)
• Tibetan: རྒྱ་ནག (rgya nag), ཀྲུང་གོ (kruṅ go)
• Turkish: Çin (tr)
• Turkmen: Hytaý, Çin (tk)

  Cyrillic: Хытай, Чин

• Tuvan: Кыдат (Kydat)
• Ukrainian: Китай (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
• Welsh: Tsieina
• Yiddish: כינע f (Khine)

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

• Afrikaans: Sjina
• Arabic: الصين f (al-Siin)
• 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)
• 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 (Kína)
• 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: Китай (ru) m (Kitáj)
• Sanskrit: चीन (čīn)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Кина f

  Roman: Kina f

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

Civilisation of the Chinese people

• Afrikaans: Sjina
• Arabic: الصين f (al-Siin)
• Catalan: Xina (ca) f
• Danish: Kina (da)
• Finnish: Kiina (fi)
• Irish: An tSín f
• Khmer: ចិន (km) (jen)
• Korean: 중국문명 (junggukmunmyeong) [中華文明]
• Macedonian: Кина (mk) f (Kína)

• Malay: Cina
• Persian: چین (fa) (čīn)
• Portuguese: China (pt) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Кина f

  Roman: Kina f

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

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: Sina
• Dhivehi: ސީނުކަރަ (Seenu Kara)
• Interlingua: 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

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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): /ˈʃina/

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Proper noun

China ?

1. China (country)

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German

Wikipedia ^de

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): [ˈçiːnaː], colloquially: [ˈʃiːnaː]
• Austria, Switzerland: [ˈkiːnaː]

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Proper noun

China n

1. China (country)

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Indonesian

Wikipedia ^id

Proper noun

China

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

Alternative forms

• Cina

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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?] (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