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China
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country; nation; state / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
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  *国* | 国* | *国
country; nation; state / (bound form) national
HSK 1
abroad / external (affairs) / overseas / foreign
HSK 1
foreign country
HSK 1
international
HSK 2
whole nation / nationwide / countrywide / national
HSK 2
to return to one's home country
HSK 2
to go abroad; to leave the country
HSK 2
domestic / internal (to a country) / civil
HSK 3
National Day
HSK 3
United Nations
HSK 3
to love one's country / patriotic
HSK 4
nationals / citizens / people of a nation
HSK 5
nationality
HSK 5
domestically produced
HSK 6
flag (of a country) / CL:
HSK 6
national anthem
HSK 6
motherland
HSK 6
king
HSK 6
Parliament (UK) / Congress (US) / Diet (Japan) / Legislative Yuan (Taiwan)
HSK 6
nationalized / public / government owned / state-owned
HSK 7-9
transnational / multinational
HSK 7-9
national defense
HSK 7-9
kingdom / realm
HSK 7-9
empire / imperial
HSK 7-9
country's territory / national land
HSK 7-9
national treasure
HSK 7-9
national emblem / national coat of arms
HSK 7-9
traditional Chinese painting
HSK 7-9
neighboring country
HSK 7-9
the characteristics and circumstances particular to a country / current state of a country
HSK 7-9
Chinese national culture / studies of ancient Chinese civilization / the Imperial College (history)
HSK 7-9
Chinese painting
HSK 7-9
imperialism
HSK 7-9
United Kingdom 聯合王國|联合王国 / United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland / abbr. for England 英格蘭|英格兰
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  *国* | 国* | *国
surname Guo
Germany / German
state-owned enterprise / (Tw) international business management (as a subject of study) (abbr. for 國際企業管理|国际企业管理)
France / French
foreigner
republic
United States; USA; US
the Warring States period (475-221 BC)
national standard (abbr. for 國家標準|国家标准) / international standard ballroom dancing (abbr. for 國際標準舞|国际标准舞)
GOME, electronics chain founded in Beijing in 1987
Thailand / Thai
(ironically) mainland China (Taiwan & Hong Kong usage)
powerful country / great power
my country; our country
compatriots (literary) / fellow countrymen
Chinese language (Mandarin), emphasizing its national nature / Chinese as a primary or secondary school subject / Chinese in the context of the Nationalist Government / Guoyu, book of historical narrative c. 10th-5th century BC
both countries; the two countries
Three Kingdoms period (220-280) in Chinese history / any of several Three Kingdoms periods in Korean history, esp. from 1st century AD to unification under Silla 新羅|新罗 in 658
traditional Chinese style
Chinese herbal medicine
country; nation
Russia
South Korea (Republic of Korea) / Han, one of the Seven Hero States of the Warring States 戰國七雄|战国七雄 / Korea from the fall of the Joseon dynasty in 1897
national debt / government debt
founding figure (of a country or dynasty) / founding father / fig. also used of company or school etc
(PRC) State Council / (USA) State Department
all nations
national boundary; border between countries
nationality / country-specific (history, report etc)
to die for one's country
to dedicate oneself to the service of one's country
to found a country / nation-building / the foundation of PRC by Mao Zedong in 1949
each country / every country / various countries
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
a power (i.e. a dominant country)
the state of Qin, one of the seven states of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)
a national policy
to found a country
Ningguo, county-level city in Xuancheng 宣城, Anhui
abbr. for 國際聯盟|国际联盟, League of Nations (1920-1946), based in Geneva, precursor of the UN
national security (abbr. for 國家安全|国家安全) / national security act / state security agency
island nation (sometimes refers specifically to Japan)
fate of the nation
Chinese Nationalist Party 國民黨|国民党 and Chinese Communist Party 共產黨|共产党
Republic of China (1912-1949) / used in Taiwan as the name of the calendar era (e.g. 民國六十年|民国六十年 is 1971, the 60th year after 1911)
Kingdom of Heaven
monarch
affairs of the nation / politics
national border / frontier
to go home (to one's native country) / to return from abroad
affairs of state
Qi state of Western Zhou and the Warring states (1122-265 BC), centered in Shandong
ancient country
national highway
State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) (abbr. for 國有資產監督管理委員會|国有资产监督管理委员会)
to save the nation
Secretary of State
to forfeit sovereignty and humiliate the country (idiom) / to surrender territory under humiliating terms
Guozijian, the highest educational administrative body in imperial China, in some dynasties also functioning as the highest institution of academic research and learning (Imperial College, aka Imperial Academy)
national law
name of country

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