中国
zhōng guó
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 中國
China, the country in East Asia. Add 人 for the people: 中国人 'a Chinese person'. Before another noun it works like the adjective 'Chinese': 中国菜 'Chinese food', 中国茶 'Chinese tea', 中国朋友 'a Chinese friend'.
Tên nước Trung Quốc, một quốc gia ở Đông Á. Thêm 人 thành tên gọi người: 中国人 (người Trung Quốc). Đặt trước một danh từ khác thì nghĩa là “của Trung Quốc”: 中国菜 (món ăn Trung Quốc), 中国茶 (trà Trung Quốc), 中国朋友 (bạn người Trung Quốc).
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “Trung Quốc” (trung-quoc). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “中国” mean?
China, the country in East Asia. Add 人 for the people: 中国人 'a Chinese person'. Before another noun it works like the adjective 'Chinese': 中国菜 'Chinese food', 中国茶 'Chinese tea', 中国朋友 'a Chinese friend'. Literally: middle country
Is “中国” formal or informal?
中国 is generally neutral.