"name of country" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
国名 國名 guó míng name of country
Chinese Pinyin Translation
本名 běn míng original name / real name / (of foreigners) first name / given name
大名 dà míng famous name / your distinguished name / one's formal personal name / (Japanese history) daimyo syn
约翰 約翰 yuē hàn John (name) / Johan (name) / Johann (name)
大和 dà hé Yamato, an ancient Japanese province, a period of Japanese history, a place name, a surname etc / Daiwa, a Japanese place name, business name etc
学名 學名 xué míng scientific name / Latin name (of plant or animal) / (according to an old system of nomenclature) on entering school life, a formal personal name given to new students
花名 huā míng name of a person on the household register (old) / name on a roster / professional name of a prostitute / pseudonym / nickname
表字 biǎo zì literary name (an alternative name of a person stressing a moral principle) / courtesy name syn
諡 shì (bound form) posthumous name or title / (literary) to confer a posthumous name or title / Japanese variant of 謚|谥 / posthumous name or title / to confer a posthumous title
名不副实 名不副實 míng bù fù shí the name does not reflect the reality (idiom) / more in name than in fact / Reality does not live up to the name. / Excellent theory, but the practice does not bear it out. syn
代字 dài zì abbreviated name of an entity (e.g. 皖政, a short name for 安徽省人民政府) / code name / (old) pronoun
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 n. 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)
土包子 tǔ bāo zi country bumpkin / boor / unsophisticated country person (humble, applied to oneself) / burial mound syn
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
圩 xū (dialect) country fair / country market 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
怯子 qiè zi person with country accent / rustic / country bumpkin
鄕 xiāng country or countryside / native place / home village or town / township (PRC administrative unit) / country / village / variant of 鄉|乡[xiang1]
锁国 鎖國 suǒ guó to close a country / to exclude foreign contact / closed country (Qing China, North Korea etc)
开国元勛 開國元勛 kāi guó yuán xūn founding figure (of a country or dynasty) / founding father / fig. also used of company or school etc / variant of 開國元勳|开国元勋, founding figure (of country or dynasty) / founding father / fig. also used of company, school 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 yuán jí guó 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
半壁河山 bàn bì hé shān half of the country (esp. when half the country has fallen into enemy hands) / vast swathe of territory / see 半壁江山[ban4 bi4 jiang1 shan1]
楚材晋用 楚材晉用 chǔ cái jìn yòng (idiom) A country’s talented people leave to work for another country. The expression usually laments the loss of national talent.
中原板荡 zhōng yuán bǎn dàng (idiom) Refers, usually in a formal style, to a turbulent and critical political situation in the central part of the country, or more broadly throughout the country.
他山之石，可以攻玉 tā shān zhī shí，kě yǐ gōng yù (idiom) Originally, the expression compared talented people from another country with resources that could serve one’s own country.
国耳忘家 guó ěr wàng jiā (idiom) To devote oneself to the affairs of the country to the point of forgetting one’s family. It is equivalent to “putting the country before one’s family.”
民安国泰 民安國泰 mín ān guó tài (idiom) The country is peaceful and its people live in security and prosperity. It is equivalent to saying that the country is prosperous and the people are at peace.
大夏 dà xià Han Chinese name for an ancient Central Asia country
暔 nán name of a country
夷洲 yí zhōu name of an ancient barbarian country, possibly Taiwan
郲 lái name of a country in Spring and Autumn period in modern Shandong, destroyed by Qi 齊|齐
米国 米國 mǐ guó United States / name of a country that formerly existed near Samarkand
名称 名稱 míng chēng n. name (of a thing) / name (of an organization) syn
姓名 xìng míng n. surname and given name / full name syn
抬头 抬頭 tái tóu v. to raise one's head / to gain ground / account name, or space for writing the name on checks, bills etc syn
名义 名義 míng yì n. name / titular / nominal / in name / ostensible purpose syn
天后 tiān hòu Tin Hau, Empress of Heaven, another name for the goddess Matsu 媽祖|妈祖[Ma1 zu3] / Tin Hau (Hong Kong area around the MTR station with same name)
品名 pǐn míng name of product / brand name
金陵 jīn líng pre-Han name for Nanjing / common place name
化名 huà míng to go by an alias / to assume a false name / alias / pseudonym / assumed name syn
维多利亚 維多利亞 wéi duō lì yà (name) Victoria / (place name) Victoria (capital of the Seychelles, southeastern state in Australia etc)
永乐 永樂 yǒng lè Yongle Emperor, reign name of third Ming emperor Zhu Di 朱棣[Zhu1 Di4] (1360-1424), reigned 1403-1424, temple name 明成祖[Ming2 Cheng2 zu3]
点名 點名 diǎn míng v. roll call / to mention sb by name / (to call or praise or criticize sb) by name syn
起名 qǐ míng to name / to christen / to take a name
并称 並稱 bìng chēng joint name / combined name syn
阿兰 阿蘭 ā lán Alan, Allen, Allan, Alain etc (name) / A-lan (Chinese female name)
申城 shēn chéng alternative name for Shanghai 上海[Shang4 hai3] / alternative name for Xinyang City, Henan 信陽市|信阳市[Xin4 yang2 Shi4]
小名 xiǎo míng pet name for a child / childhood name syn
高梁 gāo liáng Takahashi (name) / Takahashi city in Okayama prefecture, Japan / Highbridge (name)
洪武 hóng wǔ Hongwu Emperor, also written Hung-wu Ti, reign name of first Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋[Zhu1 Yuan2 zhang1] (1328-1398), reigned 1386-1398, temple name 明太祖[Ming2 Tai4 zu3]
弗洛伊德 fú luò yī dé Floyd (name) / Freud (name) / Dr Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), the founder of psychoanalysis
年号 年號 nián hào reign title / era name (name for either the entire reign of an emperor or one part of it) / year number (such as 2016 or 甲子)
正德 zhèng dé Zhengde Emperor, reign name of eleventh Ming emperor Zhu Houzhao 朱厚照[Zhu1 Hou4 zhao4] (1491-1521), reigned 1505-1521, temple name 明武宗[Ming2 Wu3 zong1]
假名 jiǎ míng false name / pseudonym / alias / pen name / the Japanese kana scripts / hiragana 平假名[ping2 jia3 ming2] and katakana 片假名[pian4 jia3 ming2] syn
百胜 百勝 bǎi shèng BaiSheng, common name for Chinese company / PakSing, common Hong Kong company name
雅各 yǎ gè Jacob (name) / James (name)
别称 別稱 bié chēng another name / alternative name syn
俗名 sú míng vernacular name / lay name (of a priest) syn
乳名 rǔ míng infant name / pet name for a child syn
有名无实 有名無實 yǒu míng wú shí lit. has a name but no reality (idiom) / exists only in name / nominal syn
天顺 天順 tiān shùn Tianshun Emperor, reign name of eighth Ming Emperor 朱祁鎮|朱祁镇[Zhu1 Qi2 zhen4] (1427-1464), reigned 1457-1464, temple name Yingzong 英宗[Ying1 zong1]
未命名 wèi mìng míng untitled / unnamed / no name / nameless / unknown name
代称 代稱 dài chēng alternative name / to refer to sth by another name / antonomasia
宣德 xuān dé Xuande Emperor, reign name of fifth Ming emperor Zhu Zhanji 朱瞻基[Zhu1 Zhan1 ji1] (1398-1435), reigned 1426-1436, temple name 明宣宗[Ming2 Xuan1 zong1]
冒名顶替 冒名頂替 mào míng dǐng tì to assume sb's name and take his place (idiom) / to impersonate / to pose under a false name syn
称 稱 chēng v. to weigh / to state / to name / name / appellation / to praise syn
氏 shì clan name / maiden name syn
渝 yú short name for Chongqing 重慶|重庆[Chong2 qing4] / old name of Jialing River 嘉陵江[Jia1 ling2 Jiang1] in Sichuan
荀 xún (archaic) name of a plant mentioned in ancient texts / name of a state that existed during the Zhou dynasty in present-day Shanxi
谥 謚 shì (bound form) posthumous name or title / (literary) to confer a posthumous name or title syn
泸 瀘 lú old name of a river in Jiangxi / place name
筸 gān former name of Fenghuang Ancient Town 鳳凰古城|凤凰古城[Feng4 huang2 Gu3 cheng2] in Hunan / used in 鎮筸|镇筸[Zhen4gan1], the former name of Fenghuang Ancient Town 鳳凰古城|凤凰古城[Feng4huang2 Gu3cheng2] in Hunan
郪 qī name of a river / place name
名副其实 名副其實 míng fù qí shí not just in name only, but also in reality (idiom) / aptly named / worthy of the name syn
名从主人 名從主人 míng cóng zhǔ rén (idiom) to refer to sth by the name its owners use / to refer to a place by the name its inhabitants use (e.g. refer to Seoul as 首爾|首尔[Shou3 er3] rather than 漢城|汉城[Han4 cheng2])
有名亡实 有名亡實 yǒu míng wáng shí lit. has a name but no reality (idiom) / exists only in name / nominal
偁 chēng to weigh / to state / to name / name / appellation / to praise / variant of 稱|称[cheng1]
佛洛伊德 fó luò yī dé Floyd (name) / Freud (name) / Dr Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), the founder of psychoanalysis
明和 míng hé Minghe, rail station in South Taiwan / Meiwa (Japanese reign name 1764-1772) / Meiwa (common name for Japanese companies or schools)
莫杰斯特 莫傑斯特 mò jié sī tè Modest (name) / Modeste (name)
亚历山大 亞歷山大 yà lì shān dà Alexander (name) / Alexandria (town name)
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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