people's republic of china

Noun
  1. A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia;
    The most populous country in the world (synset 108740839)
    domain member region:
    • acupuncture, stylostixis - treatment of pain or disease by inserting the tips of needles at specific points on the skin
    • acupressure, g-jo, shiatsu - treatment of symptoms by applying pressure with the fingers to specific pressure points on the body
    • chinese revolution - the republican revolution against the Manchu dynasty in China; 1911-1912
    • yang - the bright positive masculine principle in Chinese dualistic cosmology
    • yin - the dark negative feminine principle in Chinese dualistic cosmology
    • feng shui - rules in Chinese philosophy that govern spatial arrangement and orientation in relation to patterns of yin and yang and the flow of energy (qi); the favorable or unfavorable effects are taken into consideration in designing and siting buildings and graves and furniture
    • chinese - any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system
    • sino-tibetan, sino-tibetan language - the family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia
    • cultural revolution, great proletarian cultural revolution - a radical reform in China initiated by Mao Zedong in 1965 and carried out largely by the Red Guard; intended to eliminate counterrevolutionary elements in the government it resulted in purges of the intellectuals and socioeconomic chaos
    • dim sum - traditional Chinese cuisine; a variety of foods (including several kinds of steamed or fried dumplings) are served successively in small portions
    • fortune cookie - thin folded wafer containing a maxim on a slip of paper
    • brown sauce, chinese brown sauce - a sauce based on soy sauce
    • egg foo yong, egg fu yung - omelet containing onions and celery and chopped meat or fish
    • egg roll, spring roll - minced vegetables and meat wrapped in a pancake and fried
    • red guard - a radical political movement by Chinese youths who espoused Maoist principles
    • falun gong - a spiritual movement that began in China in the latter half of the 20th century and is based on Buddhist and Taoist teachings and practices
    • hangchow, hangzhou - a city of eastern China on Hangzhou Bay; regarded by Marco Polo as the finest city in the world
    • yalu, yalu river - river in eastern Asia; rises in North Korea and flows southwest to Korea Bay (forming part of the border between North Korea and China)
    • i. m. pei, ieoh ming pei, pei - United States architect (born in China in 1917)
    • cattie, catty - any of various units of weight used in southeastern Asia (especially a Chinese measure equal to 500 grams)
    • ch'i, chi, ki, qi - the circulating life energy that in Chinese philosophy is thought to be inherent in all things; in traditional Chinese medicine the balance of negative and positive forms in the body is believed to be essential for good health
    is an instance of: asian country, asian nation - any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent
    member holonym: chinese - a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China
    has:
    • chinese wall, great wall, great wall of china - a fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC; it averages 6 meters in width
    • manchuria - a region in northeastern China
    • beijing, capital of red china, peiping, peking - capital of the People's Republic of China in the Hebei province in northeastern China; 2nd largest Chinese city
    • chongqing, chungking - a city in south-central China on the Chang Jiang; a commercial center for western China
    • canton, guangzhou, kuangchou, kwangchow - a city on the Zhu Jiang delta in southern China; the capital of Guangdong province and a major deep-water port
    • gansu, gansu province, kansu - a province in north-central China; formerly part of the Silk Road to Turkistan and India and Persia
    • hebei, hebei province, hopeh, hopei - a populous province in northeastern China
    • hunan, hunan province - a province in southeastern central China between the Nan Ling mountains and the Chang Jiang; noted for its timber and valuable mineral resources
    • sichuan, szechuan, szechwan, szechwan province - a populous province of south central China
    • yunnan, yunnan province - a province of southern China
    • luda, luta - an industrial conurbation in northeastern China on the southern end of the Liaodong Peninsula; it now includes the cities of Dalian and Lushun
    • dairen, dalian, talien - a port and shipbuilding center in northeastern China on the Liaodong Peninsula; now a part of Luda
    • loyang, luoyang - a city in east central China; the capital of ancient China during several dynasties
    • lushun, port arthur - a major port city in northeastern China on the Liaodong Peninsula; now a part of Luda
    • hangchow, hangzhou - a city of eastern China on Hangzhou Bay; regarded by Marco Polo as the finest city in the world
    • nan-chang, nanchang - a walled city in southeastern China on the Gan Jiang
    • nan-ning, nanning - an industrial city in southern China
    • nanjing, nanking - a city in eastern China on the Yangtze River; a former capital of China; the scene of a Japanese massacre in the 1930s
    • shanghai - the largest city of China; located in the east on the Pacific; one of the largest ports in the world
    • fengtien, moukden, mukden, shenyang - a city in northeastern China
    • taiyuan - an ancient city in northeastern China noted for coal mining and steel production
    • tangshan - an industrial city of northeastern China in Hebei province
    • t'ien-ching, tianjin, tientsin - a major industrial center in northeastern China on the Grand Canal near the Yellow Sea; 3rd largest city in China
    • grand canal - an inland waterway 1000 miles long in eastern China; extends from Tianjin in the north to Hangzhou in the south
    • wuhan - a city of central China on the Chang Jiang; the commercial and industrial center of central China
    • changan, hsian, sian, singan, xian - a city of central China; capital of ancient Chinese empire 221-206 BC
    • sinkiang, xinjiang, xinjiang uighur autonomous region - an autonomous province in far northwestern China on the border with Mongolia and Kazakhstan; the largest province in the People's Republic of China and the homeland of the Uighur people
    • inner mongolia, nei monggol - an autonomous region of northeastern China that was annexed by the Manchu rulers in 1635 and became an integral part of China in 1911
    • hong kong - formerly a Crown Colony on the coast of southern China in Guangdong province; leased by China to Britain in 1842 and returned in 1997; one of the world's leading commercial centers
    • gobi, gobi desert - a desert in central China
    • taklamakan desert, taklimakan desert - a desert in western China
    • amur, amur river, heilong, heilong jiang - an Asian river between China and Russia; flows into the Sea of Okhotsk
    • bo hai, po hai - an inlet of the Yellow Sea, on the coast of Eastern China
    • brahmaputra, brahmaputra river - an Asian river; flows into the Bay of Bengal
    • gan jiang, kan river - a river in southeastern China that flows generally north into the Chang Jiang to the north of Nanchang
    • huang he, hwang ho, yellow river - a major river of Asia in northern China; flows generally eastward into the Yellow Sea; carries large quantities of yellow silt to its delta
    • kuenlun, kuenlun mountains, kunlan shan, kunlun, kunlun mountains - a mountain range in western China that extends eastward from the Indian border for 1000 miles
    • liaodong bandao, liaodong peninsula - a peninsula in northeastern China that extends into the Yellow Sea, between Bo Hai and Korea Bay
    • mekong, mekong river - an Asian river; flows through a large delta in southern Vietnam into the South China Sea
    • nan ling - a mountain range in southeastern China running generally east to west
    • pamir mountains, the pamirs - a mountain range in central Asia that is centered in Tajikistan but extends into Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan and Pakistan and western China
    • poyang - a lake in central China that is connected to the Chang Jiang by a canal
    • tien shan, tyan shan - a major mountain range of central Asia; extends 1,500 miles
    • chang, chang jiang, changjiang, yangtze, yangtze kiang, yangtze river - the longest river of Asia; flows eastward from Tibet into the East China Sea near Shanghai
    • canton river, chu kiang, pearl river, zhu jiang - a river in southeast China that flows into the South China Sea
    is a part of: asia - the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations
    same as: cathay, china, communist china, mainland china, prc, red china

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