土包子 tǔ bāo zi country bumpkin / boor / unsophisticated country person (humble, applied to oneself) / burial mound syn 怯子 qiè zi person with country accent / rustic / country bumpkin 挼 ruá (dialect) (of paper or cloth) wrinkled / crumpled / (dialect) (of clothes) worn out / (dialect) (of a fire's intensity, one's physical condition etc) weak / feeble / (dialect) (of skill) poor / inferior 村姑 cūn gū village girl / country bumpkin syn 阿土 ā tǔ country bumpkin / redneck (derog) 圩 xū (dialect) country fair / country market syn 溜 liù swift current / rapids / (dialect) (of speech, actions etc) skilled / proficient / (of movements) quick / speedy / (bound form) rain runoff from a roof / (bound form) roof gutter / classifier for rows, lines etc / surroundings / neighborhood / (dialect) to practice / (dialect) to plaster / to fill in the cracks (with cement, lime plaster etc) syn 乡巴佬 鄉巴佬 xiāng bā lǎo (derog.) villager / hick / bumpkin syn 土老帽 土老冒 tǔ lǎo mào hillbilly / yokel / redneck / bumpkin 我国 我國 wǒ guó my country / our country syn 各国 各國 gè guó each country / every country / various countries syn 国情 國情 guó qíng the characteristics and circumstances particular to a country / current state of a country 半壁江山 bàn bì jiāng shān half of the country (esp. when half the country has fallen into enemy hands) / vast swathe of territory syn 富国 富國 fù guó rich country / make the country wealthy (political slogan) syn 乡村音乐 鄉村音樂 xiāng cūn yīn yuè country music (country & western music genre) 闭关锁国 閉關鎖國 bì guān suǒ guó to close the passes and seal off the country / to close a country to exclude foreign contact syn 富国强兵 富國強兵 fù guó qiáng bīng lit. rich country, strong army (idiom) / slogan of legalist philosophers in pre-Han times / Make the country wealthy and the military powerful, slogan of modernizers in Qing China and Meiji Japan (Japanese pronunciation: Fukoku kyōhei) syn 主席国 主席國 zhǔ xí guó chair country / country holding revolving presidency 锁国 鎖國 suǒ guó to close a country / to exclude foreign contact / closed country (Qing China, North Korea etc) 国家支助组 國家支助組 guó jiā zhī zhù zǔ country technical services team / country support team 国家指示性规划数字 國家指示性規劃數字 indicative country planning figures / country IPFs 国家指规数 國家指規數 indicative country planning figures / country IPFs 第二回籍假国 第二回籍假國 alternative home leave country / alternate home leave country 替代回籍假国 替代回籍假國 alternative home leave country / alternate home leave country 联合国国家工作队 聯合國國家工作隊 lián hé guó guó jiā gōng zuò duì United Nations country team / country team 完整的国家办事处 完整的國家辦事處 full-fledged country office / full country office 装备提供国 裝備提供國 equipment-providing country / equipment-owning country 装备所属国 裝備所屬國 equipment-providing country / equipment-owning country 装备操作国 裝備操作國 equipment-operating country / equipment-using country 装备使用国 裝備使用國 equipment-operating country / equipment-using country 原籍国 原籍國 source country / sending country 准核国 準核國 threshold country / near-nuclear country 第一庇护国 第一庇護國 first asylum country / country of first asylum 柴禾妞 chái hé niū (dialect) country girl / unsophisticated girl 咱们 咱們 zán men we or us (including both the speaker and the person(s) spoken to) / (dialect) I or me / (dialect) (in a coaxing or familiar way) you / also pr. [za2 men5] syn 风光 風光 fēng guāng scene / view / sight / landscape / to be well-regarded / to be well-off / grand (dialect) / impressive (dialect) syn 黄牛 黃牛 huáng niú ox / cattle / scalper of tickets etc / (dialect) to fail to show up / (dialect) to break a promise syn 大 dà big / large / great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4jie3]) / greatly / freely / fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother) syn 拿捏 ná niē (lit. and fig.) to grasp / to control / (dialect) affecting shyness / coy / (dialect) to deliberately create difficulties / to threaten 着 著 zhāo a move in chess (Taiwan pr. [zhuo2]) / trick / tactic / (dialect) okay / all right / (dialect) to put in / to add syn 种花 種花 zhòng huā to grow flowers / (dialect) to vaccinate / (dialect) to grow cotton syn 咧咧 liē liē (dialect) to cry / to whimper / (dialect) to talk drivel 兴 興 xīng to rise / to flourish / to become popular / to start / to encourage / to get up / (often used in the negative) to permit or allow (dialect) / maybe (dialect) syn 砻 礱 lóng (dialect) tool used to hull rice (similar to a grain mill) / (dialect) to hull rice using this tool syn 㞎 bǎ (dialect) poo / (dialect) to shit 启海话 啟海話 qǐ hǎi huà Qihai dialect, a Wu dialect spoken in Tongzhou, Haimen, and Qidong districts in southern Jiangsu province, and on Chongming Island in Shanghai 媳妇 媳婦 xí fu (dialect) wife / (dialect) young married woman syn 拧巴 擰巴 nǐng ba (dialect) awkward / uncomfortable / (dialect) obstinate / contrary / argumentative 磕碜 磕磣 kē chen (dialect) ugly / unsightly / shabby / (dialect) to humiliate / to ridicule 馃子 餜子 guǒ zi (dialect) pastry / (dialect) youtiao / deep-fried cruller 齁甜 hōu tián (dialect) (of food) excessively sweet / cloying / (dialect) (of words, affection etc) sickenly sweet / overly sentimental 巴适 巴適 bā shì (Sichuan dialect) comfortable / suitable / excellent / really good / (Sichuan dialect) to be close to (sb) / to curry favor with 国家 國家 guó jiā country / nation / state / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 国内 國內 guó nèi domestic / internal (to a country) / civil syn 各地 gè dì in all parts of (a country) / various regions syn 江湖 jiāng hú rivers and lakes / all corners of the country / remote areas to which hermits retreat / section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law / the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wu3xia2]) / (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc / demimonde / (in modern times) triads / secret gangster societies / underworld syn 总统 總統 zǒng tǒng president (of a country) / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2],屆|届[jie4] syn 外国 外國 wài guó foreign country syn 北方 běi fāng north / the northern part a country / China north of the Yellow River syn 宪法 憲法 xiàn fǎ constitution (of a country) / CL:部[bu4] syn 出国 出國 chū guó to go abroad / to leave the country syn 外地 wài dì parts of the country other than where one is syn 境内 境內 jìng nèi within the borders / internal (to a country, province, city etc) / domestic syn 全国各地 全國各地 quán guó gè dì every part of the country 京城 jīng chéng capital of a country syn 国土 國土 guó tǔ country's territory / national land syn 本土 běn tǔ one's native country / native / local / metropolitan territory syn 境外 jìng wài outside (a country's) borders 巨头 巨頭 jù tóu tycoon / magnate / big player (including company, country, school etc) / big shot syn 统治 統治 tǒng zhì to rule (a country) / to govern / rule / regime syn 回国 回國 huí guó to return to one's home country 爱国 愛國 ài guó to love one's country / patriotic syn 江山 jiāng shān rivers and mountains / landscape / country / state power syn 大国 大國 dà guó a power (i.e. a dominant country) syn 全民 quán mín entire population (of a country) syn 国度 國度 guó dù country / nation syn 建国 建國 jiàn guó to found a country / nation-building / the foundation of PRC by Mao Zedong in 1949 syn 天下第一 tiān xià dì yī first under heaven / number one in the country syn 本国 本國 běn guó one's own country syn 六合 liù hé the six directions (north, south, east, west, up, down) / the whole country / the universe / everything under the sun syn 发展中国家 發展中國家 fā zhǎn zhōng guó jiā developing country 佣兵 傭兵 yōng bīng (military) mercenary / (sports) player hired from another country 出境 chū jìng to leave a country or region / outbound (tourism) syn 入境 rù jìng to enter a country 越野 yuè yě cross country 国旗 國旗 guó qí flag (of a country) / CL:面[mian4] 强国 強國 qiáng guó powerful country / great power syn 治国 治國 zhì guó to rule a country syn 诸侯 諸侯 zhū hóu dukes or princes who rule a part of the country under the emperor / local rulers syn 山地 shān dì mountainous region / hilly area / hilly country 定居 dìng jū to settle (in some city, country etc) / to take up residence syn 京都 jīng dū capital (of a country) syn 成员国 成員國 chéng yuán guó member country 异域 異域 yì yù foreign country / alien land syn 山河 shān hé mountains and rivers / the whole country syn 京师 京師 jīng shī capital of a country (literary) syn 内政 內政 nèi zhèng internal affairs (of a country) 统考 統考 tǒng kǎo unified examination (e.g. across the country) 