Definition of china. Meaning of china. Synonyms of china

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Definition of china

China
China Chi"na, n. 1. A country in Eastern Asia. 2. China ware, which is the modern popular term for porcelain. See Porcelain. China aster (Bot.), a well-known garden flower and plant. See Aster. China bean. See under Bean, 1. China clay See Kaolin. China grass, Same as Ramie. China ink. See India ink. China pink (Bot.), an anual or biennial species of Dianthus (D. Chiensis) having variously colored single or double flowers; Indian pink. China root (Med.), the rootstock of a species of Smilax (S. China, from the East Indies; -- formerly much esteemed for the purposes that sarsaparilla is now used for. Also the galanga root (from Alpinia Gallanga and Alpinia officinarum). China rose. (Bot.) (a) A popular name for several free-blooming varieties of rose derived from the Rosa Indica, and perhaps other species. (b) A flowering hothouse plant (Hibiscus Rosa-Sinensis) of the Mallow family, common in the gardens of China and the east Indies. China shop, a shop or store for the sale of China ware or of crockery. China ware, porcelain; -- so called in the 17th century because brought from the far East, and differing from the pottery made in Europe at that time; also, loosely, crockery in general. Pride of China, China tree. (Bot.) See Azedarach.

Meaning of china from wikipedia

- china. (audio en-us-china. ogg , ˈ , tʃ , aɪ , n , ə; s 中国 , hp zhōngguó officially the people's republic of china (prc), is a sovereign
- following the chinese civil war , the communist party of china took full control of mainland china and founded the people's republic of
- chinese civilization originated in various regional centers along both the yellow river and the yangtze river valleys in the neolithic
- the china pr national football team. (s 中国国家足球队 , p zhōngguó guójiā zúqiú duì , l chinese national soccer team republic of china and is
- the qing dynasty, also empire of the great qing or great qing, was the last imperial dynasty of china , ruling from 1644 to 1912 with a
- china, mainland china, the chinese mainland or simply the mainland, is a geographic and political term to describe the geopolitical area
- japanese war of 1894–95, was a military conflict fought primarily between the republic of china and the empire of japan from 1937 to 1941.
- unless otherwise specified chinese text in this article is written in the format (simplified chinese / traditional chinese ; pinyin ).
- the republic of china. (s 中华民国 , t 中華民國 , p zhōnghuá mínguó , w chung 1-hua 2 min 2-kuo 2 , first t governed mainland china until 1949, when
- the cinema of china is one of three distinct historical threads of chinese-language cinema together with the cinema of hong kong and the