Hong Kong

Hong Kong (a city, island, and special administrative region in southeastern China)


yin-yang

(Chinese philosophy) yin-yang (opposite principles in Chinese philosophy)


Chine

From Persian چینی (čini, “Chinese; porcelain”), compound of چین (čin, “China”) and the suffix ـی (-i), from Middle Persian 𐭰𐭩𐭭 (čīn, “China”), ultimately from Sanskrit चीन (cīna).


Guangzhou

/ɡwɑ̃ɡ.dʒɔw/

Holonym: Guangdong

Guangzhou (the capital and largest city of Guangdong, China)


Macao

Macau (A Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China just west of Hong Kong)


cham

fr-adj

cham (feminine chame, masculine plural chams, feminine plural chames)

chame (feminine)
chams (masculine plural)
chames (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Vietnamese Chăm, from Eastern Cham Cam.


Ningbo

Ningbo (a port city, prefecture-level city, and subprovincial city in eastern Zhejiang, China)


chinois

chinois (feminine chinoise, masculine plural chinois, feminine plural chinoises)

chinoise (feminine)
chinois (masculine plural)
chinoises (feminine plural)


sino-

From Medieval Latin Sina (“China”), from Latin Sinae (“the Southern Chinese; Southern China”), from Ancient Greek Σῖναι (Sînai), q.v.


Guangdong

/ɡwɑ̃ɡ.dɔ̃ɡ/

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 廣東／广东 (Guǎngdōng).

Holonym: Chine

Meronym: Canton


Shenyang

Holonym: Liaodong

Shenyang (a subprovincial city, the provincial capital of Liaoning, in northeastern China).


Chongqing

Borrowed from Mandarin 重慶／重庆 (Chóngqìng).

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Chongqing (a direct-administered municipality and city in western China)


Wuhan

Wuhan (a subprovincial city, the provincial capital of Hubei, China)


Sichuan

Holonym: Chine

Meronyms: Chengdu, Chongqing


Pékin

→ Persian: پکن (pekan)

→ Khmer: ប៉េកាំង (peekang)

Borrowed from Mandarin 北京 (Běijīng), specifically the Nanking court dialect from before the modern palatalization of /k/ to /tɕ/. Doublet of Beijing. Compare Spanish Pekín, Portuguese Pequim, English Peking, Dutch Peking. See also Tonkin and Nankin (“Nanjing”).

Beijing (a direct-administered municipality, the capital city of China)


Jiangsu

Meronym: Nankin


Chinois

fr-noun

Chinois m (plural Chinois, feminine Chinoise)

Holonym: Est-Asiatique

Meronyms: Cantonais, Hongkongais, Ningbonais, Pékinois, Shanghaïen, Taïwanais


Suzhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 蘇州／苏州 (Sūzhōu).

zh-l

蘇州／苏州 (Sūzhōu)

Suzhou (a prefecture-level city in Jiangsu, China)


encre de Chine

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Meronym: noir de fumée


Shanghaï

Shanghai (a major port city and direct-administered municipality of China, the largest urban area in China)


macanais

fr-adj

macanais (feminine macanaise, masculine plural macanais, feminine plural macanaises)

macanaise (feminine)
macanais (masculine plural)
macanaises (feminine plural)


Shaoxing

Shaoxing (a prefecture-level city in eastern Zhejiang, China)


République populaire de Chine

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People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China#English

People's Republic of China, China (a country in East Asia)


Nankin

Borrowed from Mandarin 南京 (Nánjīng), based on the Nanking court dialect from before the modern palatalization of /k/ to /tɕ/. Also see Tonkin and Pékin (“Beijing”).

Nanjing (the capital city of Jiangsu, China)


ouïghour

ouïghour (feminine ouïghoure, masculine plural ouïghours, feminine plural ouïghoures)

ouïghoure (feminine)
ouïghours (masculine plural)
ouïghoures (feminine plural)


Céleste-Empire

(obsolete or historical) Celestial Empire (China)


Empire du Milieu

l’Empire du Milieu (canonical masculine)

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(dated or journalism) the Middle Kingdom (China)


ouïgour

ouïgour (feminine ouïgoure, masculine plural ouïgours, feminine plural ouïgoures)

ouïgoure (feminine)
ouïgours (masculine plural)
ouïgoures (feminine plural)


Paris de l'Orient

le Paris de l’ Orient (canonical feminine masculine)

(historical) Synonym of Shanghaï (“Paris of the East”)


ningbonais

ningbonais (feminine ningbonaise, masculine plural ningbonais, feminine plural ningbonaises)

ningbonaise (feminine)
ningbonais (masculine plural)
ningbonaises (feminine plural)

Holonym: Chinois


sichuanais

(linguistics) Sichuanese (Mandarin dialect)


empire du Milieu

l’empire du Milieu (canonical masculine)

Empire du Milieu
Empire du Milieu#French

Alternative letter-case form of Empire du Milieu


Boao

2021, Frédéric Lemaître, Au Forum économique de Boao, Xi Jinping promeut une mondialisation aux caractéristiques chinoises, Lemonde.fr (20 April 2021);
Quarante-huit heures avant le sommet sur le climat organisé par Joe Biden, le président chinois, Xi Jinping, n’a pas eu un mot ni pour cet événement ni pour son homologue américain, mardi 20 avril, en inaugurant – par vidéo – le 20e Forum de Boao, ce « Davos chinois » organisé, depuis 2001, sur l’île de Hainan, dans le sud du pays.

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Péking

English: Peking


Kiang-Sou

Meronym: Nan-King


Yangjingbang

Holonym: Shanghaï

(historical) the Yangjingbang (former river in Shanghai)


Huangpu

Holonym: Shanghaï


Ningbonais

fr-noun

Ningbonais m (plural Ningbonais, feminine Ningbonaise)

Ningbonais (plural)
Ningbonaise (feminine)

Holonym: Chinois

Ningbonese (resident or native of Ningbo)


femme-renarde

femme-renarde f (plural femmes-renardes)