中国中國 in English

Measure word

• 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested in use
• 趟 tàng to wade; to trample; to turn the soil attested in use
• 首 shǒu head; chief; first (occasion, thing etc); classifier for poems, songs etc attested in use

Character breakdown

• 中 zhōng within
• 国國 guó country

Stroke order

How it used to be written

中

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 30 forms

国

These are the forms of 國, the traditional character: 国 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Bronze script 西周早期
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 13 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 1978年中国和日本签署了和平条约。

  In 1978 a peace treaty was concluded between Japan and China.

• 三十二名领奖学金的马达加斯加学生飞往中国。

  Thirty-two Madagascan students who receive scholarship are flying to China.

• 中国与巴基斯坦、印度、阿富汗、塔吉克斯坦、吉尔吉斯斯坦、哈萨克斯坦、北朝鲜、老挝、越南、尼泊尔、不丹、缅甸、蒙古和俄罗斯接壤。

  China shares borders with Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Laos, Vietnam, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Mongolia and Russia.

• 中国人民非常勤劳。

  The Chinese are a hard-working people.

• 中国历史比日本历史更悠久。

  The history of China is older than that of Japan.

• 中国发展得太快了。

  China's developing too quickly.

• 中国和印度的人口超过了其他任何国家。

  The populations of China and India dwarf those of every other nation.

• 中国在中文中是“Zhongguo”。

  China is called "Zhongguo" in Chinese.

All example sentences with 中国