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say it: CHAHY-nuh
china is a noun meaning "a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world
high quality porcelain originally made only in China
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
dishware made of high quality porcelain
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for china come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.