china

See also: China

§English

§Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tʃʌɪnə/

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§Etymology 1

After the country China.

§Noun

china (countable and uncountable, plural chinas)

1. (uncountable) The root of a climbing plant, Smilax china L., once believed to have important medicinal properties.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.5.1.v:

     China, saith Manardus, makes a good colour in the face, takes away melancholy, and all infirmities proceeding from cold […].

2. (uncountable) Ceramic or porcelain.
3. (uncountable) Tableware made from china.
4. (countable, music) A cymbal, flattened at the perimeter, about 16 to 20 inches (40 to 50 centimetres) across, that is ridden or crashed to produce a distinctive "trashy" sound.
5. A glazed china marble in children's games.

§Derived terms

• bone china

§Translations

porcelain

• Albanian: porcelan
• Arabic: خزف m (kházaf)
• Bulgarian: порцелан m (porcelan)
• Catalan: porcellana f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 瓷器 (zh) (cíqì)

• Czech: porcelán m
• Danish: porcelæn (da)
• Estonian: portselan
• Faroese: postalín n
• French: porcelaine (fr) n
• German: chinesisches Porzellan (de) n
• Hebrew: חרסינה (he) f (kharsina)
• Italian: porcellana (it) f

• Japanese: 磁器 (じき, jiki)
• Jèrriais: porcélaine f
• Macedonian: порцела́н m (porcelán)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: porselen n

  Nynorsk: porselen n

• Portuguese: porcelana (pt) f
• Russian: фарфо́р (ru) m (farfór)
• Scots: cheenae
• Slovak: porcelán m
• Spanish: loza f
• Swedish: porslin (sv) n
• Vietnamese: sứ (vi), đồ sứ

tableware made from china

• Albanian: bilur (sq)
• Estonian: portselan
• Japanese: 磁器 (じき, jiki)
• Jèrriais: vaisselle dé porcélaine f

• Portuguese: louça (pt) f
• Scots: cheenae
• Swedish: porslin (sv) n

cymbal

• Japanese: チャイナシンバル (chaina shinbaru)

§Etymology 2

From china plate.

§Noun

china (plural chinas)

1. (Cockney rhyming slang, countable) Mate (i.e., friend).

   All right, me old china?

§Translations

Cockney rhyming slang: mate — see mate

§Anagrams

• chain

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§French

§Verb

china

1. third-person singular past historic of chiner

§Anagrams

• nicha

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§Italian

§Adjective

china sg

1. feminine form of chino

§Noun

china f (plural chine)

1. slope, decline, descent
2. cinchona (tree)
3. Indian ink

§Synonyms

• (1) pendio, declivio, discesa

§Related terms

• chinare
• chinato
• chinidina
• chinina
• chinato

§Verb

china

1. third-person singular present of chinare
2. second-person singular imperative of chinare

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§Spanish

§Etymology 1

§Noun

china f (plural chinas)

1. Pebble, small stone usually rounded

§Etymology 2

§Adjective

china

1. feminine form of chino

§Noun

china f (plural chinas, masculine chino)

1. A Chinese woman.

§See also

• tinta china

§Etymology 3

From Quechua china (“female”).

§Noun

china f (plural chinas)

1. (pejorative, South America) female servant in a hacienda.

§Etymology 4

Allusion to the orange fruit's Asian origin (as in sinensis in Citrus sinensis).

§Noun

china f (plural chinas)

1. (Puerto Rico) orange (fruit)