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Ming era views of Zhongguo
[edit]http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/bitstream/1808/13656/1/Dardess%20Mongols.pdf
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Rajmaan (talk) 14:04, 26 July 2014
"Chin" didn't always refer to China in other language
[edit]I want to point out historically "Chin" didn't always refer to China in other languages, even though its etymology was clearly from "Qin" even at the time. See the article about the Urdu poem Tarana-e-Milli. --Voidvector (talk) 22:19, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
Tibet
[edit]Why doesn't Tibet link to anything? There is a Tibetan Autonomous Region Wiki that it could redirect to. 2601:1C2:F00:940:947:8332:7469:6BD8 (talk) 15:03, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
Characters not properly rendered
[edit]Some characters (found here would it be possible to add a notification about text rendering? I am not familiar with how to do this, so would anyone be able to fix this issue? 165.161.20.33 (talk) 15:49, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
Etymologies for sign languages
[edit]I added a section regarding sign language names for China, and pointed out that Hong Kong & Taiwan SL have unrelated signs—can anyone point out where those come from? Also, a handful of languages have other unrelated signs—what about those? I suspect the Polish and Turkish ones (see Spread the Sign) indicate a Mandarin’s long mustache…? שונרא (talk) 14:29, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
Removing exhaustive translations
[edit]Since WP:Wikipedia is not a dictionary, I will be removing the exhaustive lists of translations for each name. They are fun, but ultimately not helpful for the vast majority of readers. Let me know if you have any concerns. Remsense诉 03:31, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
Chin is name of Myanmar state
[edit]so how can we consider two chin China name original chungo if in sanskrit chin name is scripted so it will for Myanmar chin not for jungo country Bhagruti (talk) 00:07, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
Guo (国) already had the meaning of "country" initially
[edit]From the Han Dynasty, guo was increasingly used to refer to a country. However, as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, it could already be translated as such, though the distinction between "region" and "country" was not clear enough. Some examples can be found in "小雅·节南山", "大雅·荡", and "大雅·桑柔" of Classic of Poetry, as well as "易经·师卦". Both the original and traditional forms of guo combine elements symbolizing a weapon and an enclosed territory, making it logical that guo had carried the meaning of "country" at a very early stage. In other words, zhongguo (中国) might have referred to the "China" we are familiar with, or say the "China" with the sequence of dynasties defined by pre-ROC Chinese historians, more frequently and earlier than someone thinks, though it was also capable of referring to the country located in the Central Plains.
By the way, guo in modern Chinese simply means country, but interestingly, both "guo" and "country" historically had the meanings of "region" and "city/capital", suggesting a universal pattern in this semantic evolution. ~2026-31141-38 (talk) 08:19, 26 May 2026 (UTC)