china

Etymology
From clippings of attributive use of, q.v., the country in East Asia. In reference to porcelain and porcelain objects, via clipping of and via this sense of  in Persia and India, which influenced the pronunciation (see below). In reference to medicine, via clipping of. In reference to flowers, via clipping of. In reference to tea, via clipping of. In Cockney slang, a clipping of as a rhyme of. In reference to drum cymbals, a clipping of  and as a genericization of a kind of Zildjian-brand cymbal.

Noun

 * , a hard white translucent ceramic made from kaolin, now sometimes distinguished in reference to tableware as  or  china.
 * 1)  Chinaware: porcelain tableware.
 * 2) * 1653, Henry Cogan translating Fernão Mendes Pinto as The Voyages and Adventures of Fernand Mendez Pinto, p. 206:
 * ...a Present of certain very rich Pieces of China.
 * 1)  Cheaper and lower-quality ceramic and ceramic tableware, distinguished from porcelain.
 * , the root of  as a medicine.
 * : worsted or woolen stuff.
 * , in its various senses.
 * 1)  Tea from China,  varieties cured by smoking or opposed to Indian cultivars.
 * 2)  A glazed china marble.
 * 3)  A kind of drum cymbal approximating a Chinese style of cymbal, but usually with Turkish influences.
 * : worsted or woolen stuff.
 * , in its various senses.
 * 1)  Tea from China,  varieties cured by smoking or opposed to Indian cultivars.
 * 2)  A glazed china marble.
 * 3)  A kind of drum cymbal approximating a Chinese style of cymbal, but usually with Turkish influences.
 * 1)  Tea from China,  varieties cured by smoking or opposed to Indian cultivars.
 * 2)  A glazed china marble.
 * 3)  A kind of drum cymbal approximating a Chinese style of cymbal, but usually with Turkish influences.
 * 1)  Tea from China,  varieties cured by smoking or opposed to Indian cultivars.
 * 2)  A glazed china marble.
 * 3)  A kind of drum cymbal approximating a Chinese style of cymbal, but usually with Turkish influences.
 * 1)  A glazed china marble.
 * 2)  A kind of drum cymbal approximating a Chinese style of cymbal, but usually with Turkish influences.
 * 1)  A kind of drum cymbal approximating a Chinese style of cymbal, but usually with Turkish influences.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Estonian: portselan
 * Finnish: posliiniastia, posliiniastiasto
 * Galician: porcelana
 * German:
 * Japanese:
 * Ladino: chiní
 * Macedonian: порцелан
 * Norman: vaisselle dé porcélaine
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Scots: cheenae
 * Swedish:


 * Japanese: チャイナシンバル

Etymology 2
.

Noun

 * 1) slope, decline, descent

Etymology 3
,, from.

Noun

 * 1) cinchona (tree)

Etymology 4
From, namely "ink of China".

Noun

 * 1) Indian ink

Noun

 * 1) a Chinese person, especially from mainland China
 * 2)  the Chinese

Adjective

 * 1) Chinese from or relating to China

Etymology 1
Borrowed from, from.

Noun

 * 1)  a woman, especially one of Native American descent
 * 2)  a prostitute

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1)  Chinaman; Chinese; someone from China

Noun

 * 1) female (of humans or animals)
 * 2) a woman of low social status
 * 3) servant, slavegirl

Etymology 1
From the infantile/nursery word chin, a children's guessing game.

Noun

 * 1) pebble, small stone (usually rounded)
 * 2)  slingshot

Noun

 * 1) china
 * 2)  orange, sweet orange
 * 3)  chickenpox
 * 1)  chickenpox

Etymology 3
.

Noun

 * 1)  female servant in a hacienda
 * 2)  babysitter

Etymology 4
Allusion to the orange fruit's Asian origin (as in sinensis in ).

Noun

 * 1)  orange (fruit)