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国
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Definitions
- 1. country; nation; state (CL:個|个[gè])
- 2. (bound form) national
Example Sentences
1 shown朕即 国 家！
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 国
Guoxing or Kuohsing Township in Nantou County 南投縣|南投县[nán tóu xiàn], central Taiwan
History of Ten States of South China (1669) by Wu Renchen 吳任臣|吴任臣[wú rèn chén], 114 scrolls
State Administration Committee on Military Products Trade (SACMPT)
International Maritime Organization
locust tree (Sophora japonica)
China Ship Scientific Research Center (CSSRC)
vassal state
traitor
State of the Union Address (US)
International Air Transport Association (IATA)
French horn
patriotism
Office of Chinese Language Council International (known colloquially as \Hanban\), an organ of the PRC government which develops Chinese language and culture teaching resources worldwide, and has established Confucius Institutes 孔子學院|孔子学院[kǒng zǐ xué yuàn] internationally
state of Wei (c. 1040-209 BC), vassal of Zhou
traitor
lit. capable of causing the downfall of a city or state (idiom)
Malaysia
China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation, Sinopec
Ryūkyū kingdom 1429-1879 (on modern Okinawa)
Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (1851-1864)
the entire country
public purse
the state of Qin, one of the seven states of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)
Arlington National Cemetery in Washington DC, USA
country; nation
PRC sports and physical culture commission
Lhalu Wetland National Nature Reserve in Lhasa
Kingdom of Heaven
China cymbal (drum kit component)
to internationalize
international airport
National University of Singapore
International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee (CCITT)
Under Secretary of State
International Finance Corporation
National Southwest Combined University (Peking, Tsinghua and Nankai Universities in exile in Kunming 1937-1945)
national boundary
our country
most-favored nation (trade status)
The Voice of China, PRC reality talent show
Commonwealth of Independent States (former Soviet Union)
nuclear weapon states
Wei State (407-225 BC), one of the Seven Hero States of the Warring States 戰國七雄|战国七雄
Ningguo, county-level city in Xuancheng 宣城[xuān chéng], Anhui
state within a state
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London
official state pronunciation
late Warring States period, c. 250-221 BC before the First Emperor's Qin Dynasty
having wealth equivalent to that of an entire nation (idiom)
the international community
Nazi Germany (1933-1945)
national holiday
Human Rights in China (New York-based expatriate PRC organization)
vassal state
China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC)
Chiang Ching-kuo (1910-1988), son of Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石, Guomindang politician, president of ROC 1978-1988
Austro-Hungarian Empire 1867-1918
China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation, Sinopec
Tongmenghui, Sun Yat-sen's alliance for democracy, founded 1905, became the Guomindang 國民黨|国民党 in 1912
ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)
(administrative) national-level
international phonetic alphabet
Russian (person)
International Children's Day (June 1)
subjugated people
Sinocentrism
International war crimes tribunal
Chinese painting
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
whole nation
USA (land of the stars and stripes)
Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus davidianus)
African National Congress, ANC
Dominican Republic
PRC National Development and Reform Commission
national team
Maritime Day (July 11th) commemorating the first voyage of Zheng He 鄭和|郑和[zhèng hé] in 1405 AD
a national policy
(China) National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)
China Meteorological Administration (CMA)
International School of the Penninsula
the League of the Left-Wing Writers, an organization of writers formed in China in 1930
(derog.) Korea
State Grid Corporation of China
Secretary of State
crime of conspiring to overthrow the state
China Geological Survey (CGS)
A Record of Japan, by Huang Zunxian 黃遵憲|黄遵宪[huáng zūn xiàn], an extended analysis of Meiji Japan
State Bureau of Military Products Trade (SBMPT)
national calamity
China Television Company (CTV), Taiwan
China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC)
the Chinese People's Volunteer Army deployed by China to aid North Korea in 1950
British Broadcasting Corporation
nationality
Sichuan International Studies University (SISU)
Reporters Without Borders (pressure group)
an American (derog.)
to close a country; to exclude foreign contact
Parthia
Reporters Without Borders (pressure group)
(spoken) Chinese language
League of Nations (1920-1946), based in Geneva, precursor of the UN
Manchukuo
FC Internazionale Milano (football club)
People's Republic of Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan)
chess
China Central Television (CCTV), PRC state TV network
affairs of state
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
Chinese comics
(derog.) Korea
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
Cathay Pacific (Hong Kong airline)
China Construction Bank
nationalism
Mongolia
China Communications and Transportation Association (CCTA)
non-state actor
Saracen Empire (medieval European name for Arab empire)
to found a country
United States Coast Guard
to reign
Amnesty International
the international media
oil-producing countries
Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR), formed in 1998
Dai Bingguo (1941-), a Chinese politician and professional diplomat
universal exposition
foreigner's certificate of residence
Made in China 2025, strategic plan to upgrade Chinese industry especially in high-tech areas, approved by China's State Council in 2015
(PRC) State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA), former incarnation (until 2008) of 環境保護部|环境保护部[huán jìng bǎo hù bù]
to love one's country
Unicode
(archaic) a state with a thousand chariots (to fight a war) – a powerful state
king
United Nations
divine fragrance, national grace (idiom); an outstanding beauty
multinational
Sixteen Kingdoms of Five non-Han people (ruling most of China 304-439)
square face
Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council
America Online (AOL)
nationality
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V. (DIN)
China Education and Research Network (CERNET)
China Consumers' Association (CCA)
PRC State Development and Planning Committee, set up 1998 to replace State Planning Committee 國家計劃委員會|国家计划委员会, replaced in 2003 by National Development and Reform Commission 國家發展和改革委員會|国家发展和改革委员会
China Telecom (Chinese company providing mobile phone service)
treason
national day
member of the State Council (in China)
state banquet
Beijing National Stadium
domestic
Standardization Administration of PRC (SAC)
to die for one's country
baguette
China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)
the State of Qǐ in modern Qǐ county 杞縣|杞县, Henan (c. 1500-445 BC), a small vassal state of Shang and Western Zhou for most of its existence
state visitor
made in China
National Protection War or Campaign to Defend the Republic (1915), a rebellion against the installation of Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯[yuán shì kǎi] as emperor
PRC State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH)
German mark
Renmin University of China
Taiwan Affairs Office
non-nuclear weapon states (NNWS)
member country
domestic flight
foreign traveler
see 國務院國有資產監督管理委員會|国务院国有资产监督管理委员会[guó wù yuàn guó yǒu zī chǎn jiān dū guǎn lǐ wěi yuán huì]
Australian National University (ANU), Canberra
Xuexi Qiangguo, PRC app designed to teach Xi Jinping Thought, released in 2019
Beijing Daxing International Airport (PKX)
China Democratic League
national team
foreign lands and places (idiom); living as expatriate
to travel around many countries (idiom); peregrinations
to spread throughout the entire country
Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC)
American Airlines
Germany
State Economic and Trade Commission (SETC)
International Space Station
International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
Xingguo county in Ganzhou 贛州|赣州[gàn zhōu], Jiangxi
United States House of Representatives
Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (Socialist Unity Party of Germany 1949-1990), the ruling communist party of the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany)
International Olympic Committee
prime minister (in ancient China)
to invigorate the country through science and education
a nation's power
state-owned enterprise
Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN)
the period over which a dynasty or nation endures
PRC Ministry of State Security
Museum of Chinese History
to found a country
country poor in oil
Republic of Slovenia
the American people
Soviet Russia (1917-1991)
Russia
GOME, electronics chain founded in Beijing in 1987
checkers (Western board game)
international standard ballroom dancing
Chinese restaurant syndrome
to benefit both the country and the people
rogue state
national treasure
Dhritarashtra (one of the Four Heavenly Kings)
National Protection Army of 1915 (in rebellion against Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯[yuán shì kǎi])
United Nations Secretariat
military nuclear power
chair country
foreign languages
The Internationale
Kingdom of Nepal
head of state
ancient country
kimchi
the Warring States period (475-221 BC)
International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF)
Chinatown
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
US Congress
Canada
Amnesty International
person from Shandong
Cai Guoqiang (1957-), contemporary Chinese artist working with firework displays and light shows
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
US National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995), predecessor of Bosnia and Herzegovina 波斯尼亞和黑塞哥維那|波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那[bō sī ní yà hé hēi sài gē wéi nà]
developed nation
Chinese remainder theorem (math.)
Sixteen Kingdoms of Five non-Han people (ruling most of China 304-439)
France
state system (i.e. form of government)
American depository receipt (ADR)
PRC State Planning Committee, set up in 1952, replaced in 1998 by State Development and Planning Committee 國家發展計劃委員會|国家发展计划委员会[guó jiā fā zhǎn jì huà wěi yuán huì] then in 2003 by National Development and Reform Commission 國家發展和改革委員會|国家发展和改革委员会[guó jiā fā zhǎn hé gǎi gé wěi yuán huì]
National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA), formerly SAPPRFT, the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (2013-2018) and SARFT, the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (prior to 2013)
(Chinese) National People's Congress
the Ottoman Empire
foreigner
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
China watcher
Chinese style
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
East China sea
Third Reich, Nazi regime (1933-1945)
Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
foreign language
made in China
to accede to a throne
Voice of America (VOA)
camouflage colors (beige, brown etc)
British telecom
China National Petroleum Corporation
national prestige
ruling a large nation is like cooking a small delicacy (idiom)
Shen Guofang (1952-), PRC assistant minister of foreign affairs (2003-2005)
National Committee of Cultural Heritage
Yasukuni Shrine, Shinto shrine in Tokyo to Japanese war dead, controversial as burial ground of several Class A war criminals
incitement to subvert state power (criminal charge used to gag free speech)
China Business (a Beijing newspaper)
French Revolution (1789-1799)
Nationalist government 1920s-1949 under Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石
international association
National Day
Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association
Axis powers (World War II)
nationalization
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)
federated nation
euphemism for Japanese porn movie
Cable Network News (CNN)
to localize (production)
Eastern Roman empire or Byzantium (395-1453)
traitor to the nation
National Commission for the Identification of Cultural Heritage
Campaign to Defend the Republic (1915) or National Protection War, a rebellion against the installation of Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯[yuán shì kǎi] as emperor
Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
National People's Congress (NPC)
international
international humanitarian organization
Plato's \The Republic\ (c. 380 BC)
international human rights norms
international and domestic
Chinese Dream (i.e. the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation), term associated with Xi Jinping 習近平|习近平[xí jìn píng]
National Games, Chinese athletics competition, organized every four years since 1959
see 共產國際|共产国际[gòng chǎn guó jì]
China Precision Machinery Import-Export Corporation (CPMIEC)
International Women's Day (March 8)
Tokyo Imperial University (renamed Tokyo University after 1945)
State Council Legislative Affairs Bureau (PRC)
feudatory
International Badminton Federation
Democratic Republic of Congo
Wu state (in south China, in different historical periods)
developing economic state
Korean Empire, from fall of Joseon dynasty in 1897 to annexation by Japan in 1910
Guomindang or Kuomintang (KMT)
Associated Press (AP)
ABC (American Broadcasting Corporation)
national border
Indian Congress party
to return to one's home country
to forfeit sovereignty and humiliate the country (idiom)
state power
Commission for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (COSTIND)
Korean language
Seoul National University SNU
multiethnic state
American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
Universal Postal Union (UPU)
Empire State Building
South Korea (Republic of Korea)
New Democracy Party of China, a short-lived party founded in 2007 by human rights activist Guo Quan, who was jailed in 2009
signatory states
nationalized
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC)
PRC National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), formed in 2003
American War of Independence (1775-1783)
Chinese Soviet Republic (1931-1937)
internationally recognized
German measles
to damage the country and cause suffering to the people (idiom)
Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy, Hong Kong
bordering country
Xingguo county in Ganzhou 贛州|赣州[gàn zhōu], Jiangxi
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF charity)
Lu, vassal state at the time of the Zhou Dynasty 周朝|周朝[zhōu cháo], located in the southwest of present-day Shandong 山東|山东[shān dōng], birthplace of Confucius
national security act
Deutsche Lufthansa AG
gross national product (GNP)
the Warring States period (475-221 BC)
Aviation Industries of China (AVIC)
(national) defense interests
International Business Machines
internationalism
Imperial College (or Academy), the highest educational body in imperial China
the national emblem of the PRC (a red circle containing the five stars of the PRC flag over Tiananmen 天安門|天安门[tiān ān mén])
Dalian University of Foreign Languages
name of country
Weimar Republic (German Reich, 1919-1933)
China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, with undergraduate campus at Changping 昌平[chāng píng], and graduate campus in Haidian district 海澱區|海淀区[hǎi diàn qū]
the country prospers, the people at peace (idiom); peace and prosperity
secretary of state (esp. historical, or Japanese or Korean usage)
In Search of Modern China by Jonathan D Spence 史景遷|史景迁[shǐ jǐng qiān]
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
National Guard (United States)
American
Chinese person
Ryūkyū kingdom 1429-1879 (on modern Okinawa)
Hong Kong National Security Law (from 30th June 2020)
China Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (CAAPA)
China Radio International
exotic
(US) Department of Homeland Security
nationals
Koninkrijk der Nederlanden
Wang Guowei (1877-1927), noted scholar
national food specialty
nationalist forces
international unit
state funeral
the Spring and Autumn (770-476 BC) and Warring States (475-221 BC) periods
Anguo, county-level city in Baoding 保定[bǎo dìng], Hebei
flag carrier
Chinese brown frog (Rana chensinensis)
to damage the people and harm the country (idiom)
Kenting National Park on the Hengchun Peninsula 恆春半島|恒春半岛[héng chūn bàn dǎo], Pingtung county, south Taiwan
Chinese character (Hanzi)
China Eastern Airlines
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
measures of national income and output
country's territory
(of a nation) to be destroyed
Interfax, Russian non-governmental news agency
China Federation of Literary and Art Circles (CFLAC)
the northern part of the country
Chinese Academy of Engineering
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
to go abroad
National Revolutionary Army
duchy
Supreme Court of the United States
national highway
May Fourth Movement
state-owned enterprise
(literary) person who dies for their country
Republic of Croatia
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
Three-Self Patriotic Movement, PRC government-sanctioned Protestant church from 1949
national defense
Zhang Guotao (1897-1979), Chinese communist leader in the 1920s and 1930s, defected to Guomindang in 1938
affairs of the nation
China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC)
to secretly plan treason (idiom)
gross domestic product (GDP)
International Court of Justice in The Hague
United States
Chinese Nationalist Party 國民黨|国民党[guó mín dǎng] and Chinese Communist Party 共產黨|共产党[gòng chǎn dǎng]
Chinese Thanksgiving, another name for 蛋炒飯節|蛋炒饭节[dàn chǎo fàn jié]
domestically produced goods
Jiashan National Forest Park in Shimen 石門|石门[shí mén], Changde 常德[cháng dé], Hunan
motherland
a Zionist
International Herald Tribune
Law on the National Emblem of the PRC, promulgated in 1991
national park
China Unicom
Kiribati
founding figure (of a country or dynasty)
Internet
China state radio regulation committee SRRC
national grace, divine fragrance (idiom); an outstanding beauty
National Taipei University of Technology
Xi'an International Studies University (XISU)
Nanzhao, 8th and 9th century kingdom in Yunnan, at times allied with Tang against Tibetan Tubo pressure
one's own country
theocracy
First international, organized by Karl Marx in Geneva in 1866
Emirate
Central African Republic
father or founder of a nation
non-nuclear country
British Empire
Zionism
All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU)
Cathay Pacific, Hong Kong-based airline
MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missile
US Department of Energy (DOE)
foreign capital
to build up the country through thrift and hard work (idiom)
international transport agency
Five Dynasties (907-960) and Ten Kingdoms (902-979), period of political turmoil in ancient China
Shule, oasis state in central Asia (near modern Kashgar) at different historical periods
US Defense Language Institute (founded 1941)
US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Atlantis
International Mathematical Union
poor country
Palais des Nations
International Labor Organization
State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission SASAC
Universal Postal Union
German Democratic Republic (East Germany), 1945-1990
CPPCC (Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference)
the state of Chu, one of the most important of the small states contending for power in China between 770 and 223 BC, located around present-day Hubei
transnational corporation
creditor country
the emperor relatives (idiom); person with powerful connections
guard home, defend the country (idiom); national defense
president (title of the head of state of China and several other nations)
late Warring States period, c. 250-221 BC before the First Emperor's Qin Dynasty
International Court of Justice
nations of the Persian Gulf
Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC)
to go home (to one's native country)
bilateral
United Nations Security Council
Chinese cuisine
superpower
(coll.) Singapore
Karakhan Dynasty of central Asia, 8th-10th century
Leslie Cheung (1956-2003), Hong Kong singer and actor
the entire nation
Chinese herbal medicine
Association of Caribbean States
The Wealth of Nations (1776) by Adam Smith 亞當·斯密|亚当·斯密[yà dāng · sī mì]
Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA)
to be faithful to the ruler and love one's country (idiom)
country destroyed, its people annihilated (idiom); total destruction
national security
outstanding founding minister (title given to reward loyal general or vassal of new dynasty or state)
China Mobile (PRC state telecommunications company)
to love one's country as one's own family (praise for a virtuous ruler)
PRC Ministry of State Security
United Front (either of the two alliances between the Guomindang and the Communist Party, 1923-1927 and 1937-1945)
suzerain state
country of origin
movement to restore the fatherland
History of the Three Kingdoms, fourth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[èr shí sì shǐ], composed by Chen Shou 陳壽|陈寿[chén shòu] in 289 during Jin Dynasty 晉朝|晋朝[jìn cháo], 65 scrolls
landlocked country
foreign company
protectorate
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Shikoku (dog)
People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF)
Republic of Côte d'Ivoire
German Federation
International Medical Center
national soccer team
Korean (person)
Southeast Asia
PRC Maritime Safety Agency
Brandon Lee (1965-1993), American actor, son of Bruce Lee
G8 (group of eight major industrialized nations)
China Association for Promoting Democracy
Three Kingdoms period (220-280) in Chinese history
State Council (PRC)
People's Bank of China
chair (or president, speaker etc) of national congress
National Key Disciplines (disciplines recognized as important and supported by PRC central government, including medicine, science, chemistry, engineering, commerce and law)
border area of northwest China (i.e. Xinjiang)
Interpol (International Criminal Police Organization)
China Law Society
Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU)
Frenchman
National Health Service (UK)
United Press International (UPI)
Russian empire (1546-1917)
world power
the China Seas (the seas of the Western Pacific Ocean, around China: Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, East China Sea, South China Sea)
foreign market
State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of State Council (SASAC)
Broadcasting Corporation of China (BCC)
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Shikoku (one of the four main islands of Japan)
CNOOC; China National Offshore Oil Corporation
Beijing Capital International Airport
national border
National Museum of China
(of sb who ostensibly collaborated with the Japanese during the Sino-Japanese war of 1937-1945) to secretly work for the Nationalists or against the Communists
Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique
Ningguo, county-level city in Xuancheng 宣城[xuān chéng], Anhui
Defense secretary
National Protection War or Campaign to Defend the Republic (1915), a rebellion against the installation of Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯[yuán shì kǎi] as emperor
British Petroleum, BP
Comintern
South Korean Grand national party
modernization of national defense, one of Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations
China National People's Congress
Air France
G7, the group of 7 industrialized countries: US, Japan, Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Canada (now G8, including Russia)
grand duchy
Chinese Patriotic Islamic Association
Thailand
compatriots (literary)
Guomindang 國民黨|国民党[guó mín dǎng] and Chinese Communist Party 共產黨|共产党[gòng chǎn dǎng]
Communist Youth League of China
National Reconnaissance Office (of the United States)
national Olympic committee
International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF)
China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC), the information hub of the China Earthquake Administration 中國地震局|中国地震局[zhōng guó dì zhèn jú]
to rob the state and hurt the people (idiom)
homeland security
national politics
international relations
Beijing International Studies University (BISU)
Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC)
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
to close the passes and seal off the country
Republic of Andorra
permanent member state (of the UN Security Council)
Bank of China (BoC)
undersecretary of state
one country, two systems (PRC proposal regarding Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan)
Korean national memorial cemetery at Dongjak-dong, Seoul
China Ornithological Society
the Holy Roman Empire (history)
customs border
United States Senate
ASCII, American Standard Code for Information Interchange
United States
China North Industries Corporation (Norinco)
Bank for International Settlements
China Earthquake Administration (CEA)
Eight-Nation Alliance, involved in a military intervention in northern China in 1900
most favored nation
Seven Powerful States of the Warring States, namely: 齊|齐[qí], 楚[chǔ], 燕[yān], 韓|韩[hán], 趙|赵[zhào], 魏[wèi] and 秦[qín]
United Kingdom
to rule according to the law
International Olympic Committee
socialism with Chinese characteristics, phrase introduced by the CCP in 1986 to refer to its ideological model, embracing the economic reforms of the post-Mao era
Communist Party of China
neutral country
COMAC (Chinese aeronautics company)
sauerkraut
Republic of China (1912-1949)
Kingdom Hall (place of worship used by Jehovah's Witnesses)
enemy country
crime of incitement to overthrow the state
British Broadcasting Corporation
Grade One State protected (species)
national
United Nations General Assembly
Seoul National University (SNU or Seoul National), Korea
steal a hook and they hang you, steal the whole country and they make you a prince (idiom, from Daoist classic Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[zhuāng zǐ])
national library
Zeng Guofan (1811-1872), Qing dynasty politician and military man
G7, the group of 7 industrialized countries: US, Japan, Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Canada (now G8, including Russia)
plane tree (Platanus x acerifolia)
the Spring and Autumn (770-476 BC) and Warring States (475-221 BC) periods
Myanmar or Burma National league for democracy (NLD)
French Revolution (1789)
Daniel Han Kuo-yu (1957-), Taiwanese KMT politician, mayor of Kaohsiung since 2018
United Kingdom
China Post (Chinese postal service)
international call
Qi state of Western Zhou and the Warring states (1122-265 BC), centered in Shandong
all nations
United Kingdom 聯合王國|联合王国[lián hé wáng guó]
lit. rich country, strong army (idiom); slogan of legalist philosophers in pre-Han times
Republic of China
foreign (country)
People's Republic of China
Austria
national essence
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Owari or Owari-no-kuni, Japanese fiefdom during 11th-15th century, current Aichi prefecture around Nagoya
May Day
host country
empire
Assemblée nationale (French lower chamber)
Dagong Global Credit Rating, credit rating agency based in China
Brunei Darussalam
International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol)
national capital
country code
Solomon Islands
China Shipbuilding Trading Corporation (CSTC)
China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC)
FC Internazionale Milano (football club)
member nation
German person or people
China Defense Science and Technology Information Center (CDSTIC)
international law
China Earthquake Administration (CEA)
Wu Bangguo (1941-), PRC electrical engineer and politician, politburo member 1992-2012
global network
international date line
steal the whole country and they make you a prince, steal a hook and they hang you (idiom, from Daoist classic Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[zhuāng zǐ])
to give one's body for the nation (idiom); to spend one's whole life in the service of the country
(PRC) China Zhi Gong Party, one of the eight legally recognized minor political parties following the direction of the CCP
Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC)
monarchy
China
industrialized country
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
to damage the people and harm the country (idiom)
Group of 77, loose alliance of developing countries, founded in 1964
United Nations Development Program
China Democratic National Construction Association
one-China policy
British person; British people
to leave one's country
Chinese (i.e. of Chinese nationality)
domestic and international
Committee for Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland (North Korean)
United Nations charter
Chinese style
African National Congress, ANC
China Disabled Persons' Federation
China Securities Journal
national humiliation, refers to Japanese incursions into China in the 1930s and 40s, and more especially to Mukden railway incident of 18th September 1931 九一八事變|九一八事变 and subsequent Japanese annexation of Manchuria
state-operated enterprise
\Strategies of the Warring States\, chronicle of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), possibly written by Su Qin 蘇秦|苏秦[sū qín]
National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
(sports) member of the national team
China Daily (an English language newspaper)
China News Service
Chiang Wei-kuo (1916-1997), adopted son of Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石
state-run (company etc)
civil war
national anthem
Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level
national socialism
State Key Laboratories (university laboratories in PRC supported by the central government)
treason
allies
to internationalize
to betray one's country
China Air Transport Association (CATA)
Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in modern Hebei and Liaoning
international trade
national
Historical name for Portugal during the Qing dynasty
Zhao, one of the seven states during the Warring States Period of Chinese history (475-220 BC)
abroad
dual citizenship
traditional Chinese painting
Gwoyeu Romatzyh, a romanization system for Chinese devised by Y.R. Chao and others in 1925-26
China Development Bank
Wusun kingdom of central Asia (c. 300 BC-300 AD)
(slang) Japan (loanword from the Japanese word for Japan, \Nihon\)
vassal state
Interfax News Agency
AT&T
Republic of Macedonia (former Yugoslav republic)
to found a state
to bring peace and stability to the country
realm of necessity (philosophy)
Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China
(at an) international level
the country weakened and the people empoverished (idiom)
transnational
domestically produced
United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)
The Matrix (1999 movie)
Hua Guofeng (1921-2008), CCP Chairman 1976-1981
English horn
Never forget national humiliation, refers to Mukden railway incident of 18th September 1931 九一八事變|九一八事变 and subsequent Japanese annexation of Manchuria
to manage state affairs
nuclear nations
foreign investor
Republic of Korea (South Korea)
natives of one's own country
history of the Sixteen Kingdoms 304-439 by Cui Hong 崔鴻|崔鸿, written towards the end of Wei of the Northern Dynasties 北魏, 100 scrolls
two-China (policy)
State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE)
People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea)
NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, agency of US government
to rule a country
to regulate the family and rule the state (idiom)
Bank of Korea
China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)
National Art Museum of China
National Resort District (PRC)
G8 (group of eight major industrialized nations)
state guesthouse
allied nation
vermilion
conflict of laws
to dedicate oneself to the service of one's country
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), 1922-1991
to rule
UNESCO, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
China Aerospace Corporation, forerunner of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) 中國航天科技集團公司|中国航天科技集团公司
Organization of American States
Communist International or Comintern (1919-1943), also known as the Third International 第三國際|第三国际[dì sān guó jì]
PRC State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA)
The rise and fall of the nation concerns everyone (idiom). Everyone bears responsibility for the prosperity of society.
London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE)
the state of Ju, ancient Dongyi state
Koreatown
republic
China Scholarship Council (CSC)
the crime of treason
FIFA
multinational
China News Service website (chinanews.com)
man of Qǐ fears the sky falling (idiom); groundless fears
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Indian Congress party
country; nation; state
when two kingdoms are at war, they don't execute envoys (idiom)
national general congress
superpower
China United Airlines
khanate (Mongol state)
the Later Jin dynasty (from 1616-)
treasury bond
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Chinese People's Armed Police Force (PAP, aka CAPF)
country with an ancient history
Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864), which ultimately failed but caused massive upheaval and weakened the Qing dynasty
claimant country (in a territorial dispute)
national pastime
Caliphate (Islamic empire formed after the death of the Prophet Mohammed 穆罕默德 in 632)
bilateral relations
International Chess Federation
militarism
developed nation
balance of payments
island nation (sometimes refers specifically to Japan)
to defend one's country
Rammstein (German metal band)
National Security Agency (NSA) (USA)
the Great Seal of the United States
locust tree (Sophora japonica)
Bopomofo
defense industry
state enterprise
Chinese Academy of Science
G7, the group of 7 industrialized countries: US, Japan, Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Canada (now G8, including Russia)
American Airlines
China Youth Daily, www.cyol.net
Sichuan
to damage the country and cause suffering to the people (idiom)
The Export-Import Bank of China (state-owned bank)
state policy
international peace foundation
US Federal Reserve (Fed), the US central bank
national history
Dramatized history of Republican China until 1927 by Cai Dongfan 蔡東藩|蔡东藩, and later chapters by Xu Qinfu 許廑父|许廑父
GOME Electrical Appliances (founded in Beijing, 1987)
Great Qing Empire (1644-1911)
monarch
foreign policy
Chinese Civil War, also known as War of Liberation 解放戰爭|解放战争[jiě fàng zhàn zhēng]
American International Group
Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), world body of gliding and aeronautic sports
a power (i.e. a dominant country)
national debt
flag (of a country)
China Writers Association (CWA)
Deutsche Welle, German publicly-operated international broadcaster
China Petrol and Chemical Industry Association (CPCIA)
China National Space Administration (CNSA)
Kingdom of Naples (1282-1860)
US Department of State
curse word
to sinicize
Tianjin Foreign Studies University
national law
realm of freedom (philosophy)
International Telecommunications Union
Amnesty International
Area 51, USA
teachers of the state
British Council
industrialized countries
State Oceanic Administration (PRC)
PRC National Day (October 1st)
foreign news media
Concise History of the Chinese Novel by Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅[lǔ xùn]
Encyclopedia of China Publishing House
CNS 11643, Chinese character coding adopted in Taiwan, 1986-1992
every part of the country
Republic of Ireland
International System of Units
man of Qǐ fears the sky falling (idiom); groundless fears
International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
Parliament (UK)
United States of America
Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
Empire State Building (New York City)
National Supervision Commission of the PRC, anti-corruption agency established in 2018
a nuclear power (country)
to dedicate oneself to the cause of one's country (idiom)
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
University of International Relations, Beijing, established in 1949
China Atomic Energy Agency (CAEA)
both countries; two countries
Chinese language (Mandarin), emphasizing its national nature
UK (slang term reflecting a perception of UK as decadent for its attitudes toward homosexuality)
FC Internazionale Milano (football club)
PRC State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA)
Yue state
(derog.) Russia
Air France
Zhengguo canal, a 150 km long irrigation canal in Shaanxi built in 264 BC
All-China Sports Federation
People's Republic of Mongolia (from 1924)
National Congress Party (Sudan)
Arab League, regional organization of Arab states in Southwest Asia, and North and Northeast Africa, officially called the League of Arab States
national flower (emblem, e.g. peony 牡丹[mǔ dān] in China)
to save the nation
China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC)
seal of state
Defense Department
exoticism
Domestic Security Protection Bureau, the department of the Ministry of Public Security responsible for dealing with dissidents, activists etc
China Times (newspaper)
State Electricity Regulatory Commission (PRC)
kingdom
NCEE, National College Entrance Examination (college entrance exam in PRC)
the current dynasty
Principality of Hutt River (formerly Hutt River Province)
member of congress
Beijing National Aquatics Center, swimming venue of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
international
International PEN
national economy
civil nuclear power
without borders (used for organizations such as Médecins sans Frontières)
Guoxing or Kuohsing Township in Nantou County 南投縣|南投县[nán tóu xiàn], central Taiwan
China National Space Administration (CNSA)
AQSIQ
developing country
lit. capable of causing the downfall of a city or state (idiom)
each country
national music
imperialism
national strength
Chinese Geophysical Society
Agricultural Bank of China
United Kingdom
American Express Co. (Amex)
Federal Republic of Germany
defense budget
name of mythical ape
Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang
Roman Empire (27 BC-476 AD)
state visit
country
Yonghap (South Korean news agency)
Tsarist Russia
China Communications Construction Company
Royal Society
State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA)
Anguo, county-level city in Baoding 保定[bǎo dìng], Hebei
United Nations Children's Fund
American Federal Reserve
British Petroleum, BP
the country ruined and the people starving (idiom)
sovereign country
national decline
hereditary monarchy
Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan)
Shanghai International Studies University (SISU)
rich country
Chinese national culture
to make the country rich and the people at peace
dual nationality
Muslim countries
to go abroad; to leave the country
Democratic Republic of Vietnam (aka North Vietnam), a country in Southeast Asia 1945-1976
prosperous country with military might
Allies
Air China Ltd.
CITIC
Federal Aviation Authority (FAA)
Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong 羅貫中|罗贯中[luó guàn zhōng], one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, a fictional account of the Three Kingdoms at the break-up of the Han around 200 AD, portraying Liu Bei's 劉備|刘备[liú bèi] Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉[shǔ hàn] as heroes and Cao Cao's 曹操[cáo cāo] Wei 魏[wèi] as villains
(ironically) mainland China (Taiwan & Hong Kong usage)
to return to one's country
China Everbright Bank
Patriotic Health Committee
your distinguished country
Communication University of China (CUC), the highest institute of radio, film and television education in China
another country
Amnesty International
China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT)
China University of Geosciences
fate of the nation
the countries involved
the characteristics and circumstances particular to a country
Czech Republic
All-China Women's Federation (PRC, established 1949)
State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China
China UnionPay (CUP), China's only domestic bank card organization
the crisis year of 1900 involving the Boxer uprising and the eight nation military invasion
American serviceman
Chinese traditional medicine
Macau International Airport
various countries
artichoke
martial arts
nickname for US President Trump 川普[chuān pǔ], implying that he benefitted China (hence 建國|建国[jiàn guó]) by doing a poor job of leading the US
official name of a nation (includes dynastic names of China: 漢|汉[hàn], 唐[táng] etc)