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china
     1. n-f. pebble, small stone (usually rounded)
     2. n-f. (Venezuela) slingshot
     3. n-f. female equivalent of chino, t=Chinese man
     4. n-f. china (porcelain)
     5. n-f. (Puerto Rico) orange, sweet orange
     6. n-f. (colloquial Cuba) chickenpox
     7. adj. feminine singular of chino
     8. n-f. (pejorative, South America) female servant in a hacienda
     9. n-f. (Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua) babysitter
     10. n-f. (Puerto Rico) orange (fruit)
chino
     1. adj. Chinese
     2. n-m. Chinese person
     3. n-m. Chinese (language)
     4. n-m. (colloquial) gobbledygook (an incomprehensible language)
     5. n-m. (colloquial) a Chinese-run establishment
     6. n-m.          a Chinese restaurant
     7. n-m.          (Spain) (US) variety store, dollar store, dime store, five-and-dime, (UK) pound shop (owned by a Chinese immigrant)
     8. n-m. (colloquial Spain) heroin (taken by chasing the dragon)
     9. adj. curly
     10. n-m. someone with curly hair
     11. n-m. (Colombia) kid
     12. n-m. (Latin America) boy, servant
           Tengo que llevar a los chinos al colegio. - I have to take the kids to school.
           Apúrate chino Juan que a la fila llaman ya. - Hurry up little John, because they're calling attendance already.
     13. n-m. (Spain, Andalucia) Alternative form of china, , pebble
     14. n-m. (in the plural) game where players try to guess the number of coins in another player's first
Spanish > Spanish
China
           Nombre oficial: República Popular China (中华人民共和国中国, Zhōnghuá rénmín gònghéguó zhōngguó).
           Capital: Pekín.
English > Spanish
China
     1. n. China.
           Nombre oficial: People's Republic of China.
           Capital: Beijing.

Pronunciation




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Example Sentences

Ha habido un gran incremento en comercio entre los Estados Unidos y China. 
    There has been a large increase in trade between the United States and China.
El verdadero punto de entendimiento mutuo aún no ha sido alcanzado entre Japón y China. 
    The point of true mutual understanding has not yet been reached between Japan and China.
Hace poco asistí a la boda de un amigo chino. La novia y el novio habían sido compañeros en la universidad, ambos se graduaron de la facultad china. Ya han estado juntos durante cinco años. 
    Recently I attended the wedding of a Chinese friend. The bride and groom had been classmates at university, and both graduated from the Chinese faculty. They've already been together for five years.
China ha impuesto una zona de exclusión aérea sobre varias islas en disputa en el Mar Oriental de China. 
    China has imposed a no-fly zone over several disputed islands in the East China Sea.
En China la historia comenzó hace treinta años, no podemos saber lo que ocurrió hace más de treinta años. 
    In China, the history began thirty years ago; we can't know what happened any farther back than thirty years.



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