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China
HSK 1
country; nation; state / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *国* | 国* | *国
country; nation; state / (bound form) national
HSK 1
abroad / external (affairs) / overseas / foreign
HSK 1
foreign country
HSK 1
international
HSK 2
whole nation / nationwide / countrywide / national
HSK 2
to return to one's home country
HSK 2
to go abroad; to leave the country
HSK 2
domestic / internal (to a country) / civil
HSK 3
National Day
HSK 3
United Nations
HSK 3
to love one's country / patriotic
HSK 4
nationals / citizens / people of a nation
HSK 5
nationality
HSK 5
domestically produced
HSK 6
national anthem
HSK 6
motherland
HSK 6
king
HSK 6
flag (of a country) / CL:
HSK 6
Parliament (UK) / Congress (US) / Diet (Japan) / Legislative Yuan (Taiwan)
HSK 6
nationalized / public / government owned / state-owned
HSK 7-9
transnational / multinational
HSK 7-9
national defense
HSK 7-9
kingdom / realm
HSK 7-9
empire / imperial
HSK 7-9
country's territory / national land
HSK 7-9
national emblem / national coat of arms
HSK 7-9
traditional Chinese painting
HSK 7-9
neighboring country
HSK 7-9
the characteristics and circumstances particular to a country / current state of a country
HSK 7-9
Chinese national culture / studies of ancient Chinese civilization / the Imperial College (history)
HSK 7-9
national treasure
HSK 7-9
Chinese painting
HSK 7-9
imperialism
HSK 7-9
United Kingdom (UK); Britain
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *国* | 国* | *国
surname Guo
Germany
the Warring States period (475-221 BC)
republic
state-owned enterprise / (Tw) international business management (as a subject of study) (abbr. for 國際企業管理|国际企业管理)
France
foreigner
country code
United States; USA; US
Thailand
Leslie Cheung (1956-2003), Hong Kong singer and actor
(ironically) mainland China (Taiwan & Hong Kong usage)
powerful country / great power
father or founder of a nation / Father of the Republic (Sun Yat-sen)
my country; our country
Chinese language (Mandarin), emphasizing its national nature / Chinese as a primary or secondary school subject / Chinese in the context of the Nationalist Government / Guoyu, book of historical narrative c. 10th-5th century BC
China News Service (CNS), a state-owned news agency in China, focused primarily on providing news to Chinese communities outside mainland China
Lu, vassal state at the time of the Zhou Dynasty 周朝, located in the southwest of present-day Shandong 山東|山东, birthplace of Confucius
both countries; the two countries
Three Kingdoms period (220-280) in Chinese history / any of several Three Kingdoms periods in Korean history, esp. from 1st century AD to unification under Silla 新羅|新罗 in 658
traditional Chinese style
Chinese herbal medicine
Chinese Academy of Science
Russia
South Korea (Republic of Korea) / (historical) Han, one of the Seven Warring States 戰國七雄|战国七雄
national debt / government debt
founding figure (of a country or dynasty) / founding father / fig. also used of company or school etc
(PRC) State Council / (USA) State Department
all nations
International Space Station
national boundary; border between countries
nationality / country-specific (history, report etc)
to die for one's country
to dedicate oneself to the service of one's country
to found a country / nation-building / the foundation of PRC by Mao Zedong in 1949
each country / every country / various countries
Shanghai International Studies University (SISU)
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
a power (i.e. a dominant country)
the state of Qin, one of the seven states of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)
to found a country
Ningguo, county-level city in Xuancheng 宣城, Anhui
state of Wei (c. 1040-209 BC), vassal of Zhou
to defend one's country
national security (abbr. for 國家安全|国家安全) / national security act / state security agency
fate of the nation
the Chinese Nationalist Party and the Chinese Communist Party (abbr. for 國民黨|国民党 + 共產黨|共产党)
Kingdom of Heaven
monarch
affairs of the nation / politics
national border / frontier
National Security Bureau (NSB) (Tw) / National Security Agency (NSA) (USA)
to go home (to one's native country) / to return from abroad
affairs of state
ancient country
national highway
State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) (abbr. for 國有資產監督管理委員會|国有资产监督管理委员会)
to save the nation
Secretary of State
to forfeit sovereignty and humiliate the country (idiom) / to surrender territory under humiliating terms
Guozijian, the highest educational administrative body in imperial China, in some dynasties also functioning as the highest institution of academic research and learning (Imperial College, aka Imperial Academy)

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