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中国

中國
Zhōng guó
HSK 1freq #729

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Zhōng guó
  1. 1.China

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  1. 1.China (a country in Asia; capital: Beijing)
  2. 2.royal court; imperial court; imperial household; imperial government
  3. 3.central part of a country (historically, commonly known as the capital city or the main region, where an emperor or other ruler resides)
  4. 4.the Central Plain (area on the lower reaches of the Yellow River which formed the cradle of Chinese civilization)
  5. 5.people of the Central Plain
  6. 6.the Chūgoku region of Japan
  7. 7."central countries"; lands with advanced civilization and other conditions helpful for teaching Buddhism

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Etymology

Earliest attested on the Western Zhou bronze vessel He zun. See Names of China#Zhongguo.

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