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north / the northern part a country / China north of the Yellow River
HSK 2
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  *国* | 国* | *国
country; nation; state / (bound form) national
HSK 1
to go abroad; to leave the country
HSK 2
parts of the country other than where one is
HSK 2
foreign country
HSK 1
president (of a country) / CL: 個|个, , , 屆|届
HSK 4
domestic / internal (to a country) / civil
HSK 3
in all parts of (a country) / various regions
HSK 3
country; nation; state / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
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  *乡* | 乡* | *乡
country or countryside / native place / home village or town / township (PRC administrative unit)
HSK 5
to return to one's home country
HSK 2
the West / the Occident / Western countries
HSK 2
to love one's country / patriotic
HSK 4
one's native country / native / local / metropolitan territory
HSK 6
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  *川* | 川* | *川
(bound form) river / creek / plain / an area of level country
flag (of a country) / CL:
HSK 6
one country, two systems (PRC proposal regarding Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan)
sovereign country
G7, the group of 7 industrialized countries: US, Japan, Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Canada (now G8, including Russia)
every part of the country
the entire nation / the whole country, from the leadership to the rank and file
to leave a country or region / outbound (tourism)
HSK 7-9
capital (of a country)
foreign country / alien land
developing country
the characteristics and circumstances particular to a country / current state of a country
HSK 7-9
to invigorate the country through science and education
country's territory / national land
HSK 7-9
insect that damages cereal crop seedlings / (lit. and fig.) vermin / a person harmful to the country and the people
tycoon / magnate / big player (including company, country, school etc) / big shot
HSK 7-9
constitution (of a country) / CL:
HSK 7-9
the country prospers, the people at peace (idiom); peace and prosperity
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  *民* | 民* | *民
(bound form) the people / inhabitants of a country
to defend one's country
Muslim countries / caliphate / Islamic State group (aka IS or ISIL or ISIS)
(law) national treatment – the principle that foreigners or foreign goods, services and companies are accorded the same treatment as nationals or domestic goods, services and companies within the host country
gift given when visiting sb (esp. a local specialty brought back from one's travels, or a special product of one's own country taken overseas) (Tw)
both countries; the two countries
Japan (old) / East Asian countries
to settle (in some city, country etc); to take up residence
HSK 7-9
capital of a country
between the two countries; bilateral
half of the country (esp. when half the country has fallen into enemy hands) / vast swathe of territory
each country / every country / various countries
to work energetically for prosperity (of the country)
my country; our country
prosperous country with military might
(archaic) capital's gate / country's border
country music (country & western music genre)
rivers and mountains / landscape / country / state power
member country
to enter a country
HSK 7-9
to benefit both the country and the people
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  *京* | 京* | *京
capital city of a country / big / algebraic term for a large number (old) / artificial mound (old)
to leave or enter a country
neighboring country
HSK 7-9
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) / (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; demimonde / (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld
to travel around (the world, a country etc)
national boundary; border between countries
to plan to seize power of the whole country (idiom)
name of country
Colombia (country in South America) / Columbia (name of various entities, mostly in the USA)
cross country
to damage the people and harm the country (idiom)
internal affairs (of a country)
the Three Worlds (as proposed by Mao Zedong), i.e. the superpowers (USA and USSR), other wealthy countries (UK, France, Japan etc), and the developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America
to give one's body for the nation (idiom); to spend one's whole life in the service of the country
nationality / country-specific (history, report etc)
people of a country / nation
to live far away from one's native place / to reside in a foreign country
call in (one's subordinates) / summon (an envoy of a foreign country) to an interview
to rule (a country) / to govern / rule / regime
HSK 7-9
OPEC / Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
duty to defend the country (idiom)
agricultural country
to rule a country
the six directions (north, south, east, west, up, down) / the whole country / the universe / everything under the sun
to found a country / nation-building / the foundation of PRC by Mao Zedong in 1949
powerful country / great power
outing in the country / to go on a hike / to go courting
in the country / rural / pastoral
flat land one could gallop straight across (idiom); wide expanse of flat country
creditor country
to run away / to flee (the country)
lone bird / marginalized (country, person etc)
to forfeit sovereignty and humiliate the country (idiom) / to surrender territory under humiliating terms
mountainous region / hilly area / hilly country
the countries involved
dukes or princes who rule a part of the country under the emperor; local rulers
neutral country
an economy; a country (or region etc) viewed as an economic entity
outside (a country's) borders
HSK 7-9
various countries
signatory states / countries that are party to a treaty
a port for external trade / a trading or transit post on border between countries
(military) mercenary / (sports) player hired from another country
guard home, defend the country (idiom); national defense
Yugoslavia (former country that existed in various forms from 1918 to 2003)
to bring peace and stability to the country
village girl / country bumpkin

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