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HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *國* | 國* | *國
country; nation; state / (bound form) national
HSK 1
foreign country
HSK 1
to return to one's home country
HSK 2
whole nation / nationwide / countrywide / national
HSK 2
to go abroad; to leave the country
HSK 2
United Nations
HSK 3
to love one's country / patriotic
HSK 4
motherland
HSK 6
empire / imperial
HSK 7-9
kingdom / realm
HSK 7-9
transnational / multinational
HSK 7-9
neighboring country
HSK 7-9
South Korea (Republic of Korea) / (historical) Han, one of the Seven Warring States 戰國七雄|战国七雄
creditor country
Republic of China (1912-1949) / used in Taiwan as the name of the calendar era (e.g. 民國六十年|民国六十年 is 1971, the 60th year after 1911)
United States; USA; US
country of origin
permanent member state (of the UN Security Council)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *國* | 國* | *國
surname Guo
(slang) Japan
Republic of Macedonia (former Yugoslav republic)
ancient country
landlocked country
to rule according to the law
Roman Empire (27 BC-476 AD)
Shikoku (one of the four main islands of Japan)
Five Dynasties (907-960) and Ten Kingdoms (902-979), period of political turmoil in ancient China
Thailand
Ryūkyū kingdom 1429-1879 (on modern Okinawa)
Republic of Ireland
United Arab Emirates (Tw)
Republic of Korea (South Korea)
Russia
United Kingdom (UK); Britain
Chiang Ching-kuo (1910-1988), son of Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石, Guomindang politician, president of ROC 1978-1988
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
to found a country / nation-building / the foundation of PRC by Mao Zedong in 1949
Germany
a power (i.e. a dominant country)
the Warring States period (475-221 BC)
my country; our country
Republic of China
multinational
all nations
state within a state
People's Republic of China
superpower
Sixteen Kingdoms of Five non-Han people (ruling most of China 304-439)
each country / every country / various countries
to save the nation
rich country / make the country wealthy (political slogan)
Qi state of Western Zhou and the Warring states (1122-265 BC), centered in Shandong
one's own country
(ironically) mainland China (Taiwan & Hong Kong usage)
powerful country / great power
Ryūkyū kingdom 1429-1879 (on modern Okinawa)
Kingdom of Heaven
Xingguo county in Ganzhou 贛州|赣州, Jiangxi
to invigorate the country
to found a state / to open a closed country
exotic / foreign
to rule a country
to return to one's country
Czech Republic
another country
prime minister (in ancient China)
enemy country
various countries
Central African Republic
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
state of Wei (c. 1040-209 BC), vassal of Zhou
to defend one's country
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
to found a country
duchy / dukedom / principality
allies / united countries
member nation
(of a nation) to be destroyed; to be subjugated / a fallen nation
Canada
the entire country
to dedicate oneself to the service of one's country
the state of Qin, one of the seven states of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)
having wealth equivalent to that of an entire nation (idiom) / extremely wealthy
treason
Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (1851-1864)
to go home (to one's native country) / to return from abroad
Free China (Cold War era term for the Republic of China on Taiwan, as distinct from "Red China")
Ningguo, county-level city in Xuancheng 宣城, Anhui
country / state
to leave one's country
to reign
vassal state
the Spring and Autumn (770-476 BC) and Warring States (475-221 BC) periods
British Empire
industrialized countries
Austro-Hungarian Empire 1867–1918
Emirate / Sheikdom / used as translation for country under a chief
to close the passes and seal off the country / to close a country to exclude foreign contact

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