CHINA

Pronunciation (US):

• CHINA (noun)
  The noun CHINA has 4 senses:

1. a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world
2. high quality porcelain originally made only in China
3. a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the communists led by Mao Zedong
4. dishware made of high quality porcelain

  Familiarity information: CHINA used as a noun is uncommon.

• CHINA (noun)

Meaning:

A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Red China; PRC; People's Republic of China; mainland China; Communist China; China

Instance hypernyms:

Asian country; Asian nation (nations occupying the Asian continent)

Meronyms (parts of "China"):

Sinkiang; Xinjiang; Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (an autonomous province in far northwestern China on the border with Mongolia and Kazakhstan; the largest province in the People's Republic of China and the homeland of the Uighur people)

Changan; Hsian; Sian; Singan; Xian (a city of central China; capital of ancient Chinese empire 221-206 BC)

Wuhan (a city of central China on the Chang Jiang; the commercial and industrial center of central China)

Grand Canal (an inland waterway 1000 miles long in eastern China; extends from Tianjin in the north to Hangzhou in the south)

T'ien-ching; Tianjin; Tientsin (a major industrial center in northeastern China on the Grand Canal near the Yellow Sea; 3rd largest city in China)

Tangshan (an industrial city of northeastern China in Hebei province)

Taiyuan (an ancient city in northeastern China noted for coal mining and steel production)

Fengtien; Moukden; Mukden; Shenyang (a city in northeastern China)

Shanghai (the largest city of China; located in the east on the Pacific; one of the largest ports in the world)

Nanjing; Nanking (a city in eastern China on the Yangtze River; a former capital of China; the scene of a Japanese massacre in the 1930s)

Nan-ning; Nanning (an industrial city in southern China)

Nan-chang; Nanchang (a walled city in southeastern China on the Gan Jiang)

Inner Mongolia; Nei Monggol (an autonomous region of northeastern China that was annexed by the Manchu rulers in 1635 and became an integral part of China in 1911)

Hong Kong (formerly a Crown Colony on the coast of southern China in Guangdong province; leased by China to Britain in 1842 and returned in 1997; one of the world's leading commercial centers)

Chang; Chang Jiang; Changjiang; Yangtze; Yangtze Kiang; Yangtze River (the longest river of Asia; flows eastward from Tibet into the East China Sea near Shanghai)

Tien Shan; Tyan Shan (a major mountain range of central Asia; extends 1,500 miles)

Poyang (a lake in central China that is connected to the Chang Jiang by a canal)

Pamir Mountains; the Pamirs (a mountain range in central Asia that is centered in Tajikistan but extends into Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan and Pakistan and western China)

Nan Ling (a mountain range in southeastern China running generally east to west)

Mekong; Mekong River (an Asian river; flows through a large delta in southern Vietnam into the South China Sea)

Kuenlun; Kuenlun Mountains; Kunlan Shan; Kunlun; Kunlun Mountains (a mountain range in western China that extends eastward from the Indian border for 1000 miles)

Huang He; Hwang Ho; Yellow River (a major river of Asia in northern China; flows generally eastward into the Yellow Sea; carries large quantities of yellow silt to its delta)

Gan Jiang; Kan River (a river in southeastern China that flows generally north into the Chang Jiang north of Nanchang)

Brahmaputra; Brahmaputra River (an Asian river; flows into the Bay of Bengal)

Amur; Amur River; Heilong; Heilong Jiang (an Asian river between China and Russia; flows into the Sea of Okhotsk)

Taklamakan Desert; Taklimakan Desert (a desert in western China)

Gobi; Gobi Desert (a desert in central China)

Hangchow; Hangzhou (a city of eastern China on Hangzhou Bay; regarded by Marco Polo as the finest city in the world)

Lushun; Port Arthur (a major port city in northeastern China; part of the conurbation of Luda)

Loyang; Luoyang (a city in east central China; the capital of ancient China during several dynasties)

Canton River; Chu Kiang; Pearl River; Zhu Jiang (a river in southeast China that flows into the South China Sea)

Chinese Wall; Great Wall; Great Wall of China (a fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC; is 1,500 miles long and averages 6 meters in width)

Manchuria (a region in northeastern China)

Beijing; capital of Red China; Peiping; Peking (capital of the People's Republic of China in the Hebei province in northeastern China; 2nd largest Chinese city)

Chongqing; Chungking (a city in south-central China on the Chang Jiang; a commercial center for western China)

Canton; Guangzhou; Kuangchou; Kwangchow (a city on the Zhu Jiang delta in southern China; the capital of Guangdong province and a major deep-water port)

Gansu; Gansu province; Kansu (a province in north-central China; formerly part of the Silk Road to Turkistan and India and Persia)

Hebei; Hebei province; Hopeh; Hopei (a populous province in northeastern China)

Hunan; Hunan province (a province in southeastern central China between the Nan Ling mountains and the Chang Jiang; noted for its timber and valuable mineral resources)

Sichuan; Szechuan; Szechwan; Szechwan province (a populous province of south central China)

Yunnan; Yunnan province (a province of southern China)

Luda; Luta (an industrial conurbation in northeastern China)

Meronyms (members of "China"):

Chinese (a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China)

Domain member region:

ch'i; chi; ki; qi (the circulating life energy that in Chinese philosophy is thought to be inherent in all things; in traditional Chinese medicine the balance of negative and positive forms in the body is believed to be essential for good health)

Chinese Revolution (the republican revolution against the Manchu dynasty in China; 1911-1912)

acupressure; G-Jo; shiatsu (treatment of symptoms by applying pressure with the fingers to specific pressure points on the body)

Yalu; Yalu River (river in eastern Asia; rises in North Korea and flows southwest to Korea Bay (forming part of the border between North Korea and China))

acupuncture; stylostixis (treatment of pain or disease by inserting the tips of needles at specific points on the skin)

Chinese (any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system)

I. M. Pei; Ieoh Ming Pei; Pei (United States architect (born in China in 1917))

cattie; catty (any of various units of weight used in southeastern Asia (especially a Chinese measure equal to 500 grams))

yang (the bright positive masculine principle in Chinese dualistic cosmology)

yin (the dark negative feminine principle in Chinese dualistic cosmology)

feng shui (rules in Chinese philosophy that govern spatial arrangement and orientation in relation to patterns of yin and yang and the flow of energy (qi); the favorable or unfavorable effects are taken into consideration in designing and siting buildings and graves and furniture)

Hangchow; Hangzhou (a city of eastern China on Hangzhou Bay; regarded by Marco Polo as the finest city in the world)

falun gong (a spiritual movement that began in China in the latter half of the 20th century and is based on Buddhist and Taoist teachings and practices)

Red Guard (a radical political movement by Chinese youths who espoused Maoist principles)

egg roll; spring roll (minced vegetables and meat wrapped in a pancake and fried)

egg foo yong; egg fu yung (omelet containing onions and celery and chopped meat or fish)

brown sauce; Chinese brown sauce (a sauce based on soy sauce)

fortune cookie (thin folded wafer containing a maxim on a slip of paper)

dim sum (traditional Chinese cuisine; a variety of foods (including several kinds of steamed or fried dumplings) are served successively in small portions)

Cultural Revolution; Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (a radical reform in China initiated by Mao Zedong in 1965 and carried out largely by the Red Guard; intended to eliminate counterrevolutionary elements in the government it resulted in purges of the intellectuals and socioeconomic chaos)

Sino-Tibetan; Sino-Tibetan language (the family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia)

Instance hyponyms:

Cathay (an archaic or literary name for China)

Holonyms ("China" is a part of...):

Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)

Meaning:

High quality porcelain originally made only in China

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("china" is a kind of...):

porcelain (ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "china"):

bone china (fine porcelain that contains bone ash)

crackle; crackle china; crackleware (glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface)

Meaning:

A government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the communists led by Mao Zedong

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Nationalist China; Republic of China; Taiwan; China

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Meronyms (parts of "China"):

Taichung (a city in Taiwan)

capital of Taiwan; Taipeh; Taipei (the capital of Nationalist China; located in northern Taiwan)

Meronyms (members of "China"):

Chinese (a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China)

Taiwanese (a native or inhabitant of Taiwan)

Holonyms ("China" is a part of...):

South China Sea (a tropical arm of the Pacific Ocean near southeastern Asia subject to frequent typhoons)

Meaning:

Dishware made of high quality porcelain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

chinaware; china

Hypernyms ("china" is a kind of...):

crockery; dishware (tableware (eating and serving dishes) collectively)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "china"):

willow-pattern; willowware (chinaware decorated with a blue Chinese design on a white background depicting a willow tree and often a river)