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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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China or Chinese?

0is it more correctly to use "China" or "Chinese" when refer to a nation?0-
  

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0 The Chinese nation ...0-
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0 01i00Chinese02i00 is an adjective, 01i00China02i00 is a proper noun. 02br
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00"I went to China last year and ate Chinese food." 0-
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0 The nation's name is China, if that is what you are looking for. 0-
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0so you want to say that Chinese as noun doesn't exist?02br
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00what about "The Chinese" - when refered to as a nation?0-
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0 It can be used as a noun. When we say 'the Chinese' we usually refer to the Chinese people or population as a whole rather than the country. 0-
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0 China is the noun.0-
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0Hi,02br
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01font00so you want to say that Chinese as noun doesn't exist?02font02br
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01font00what about "The Chinese" - when refered to as a nation? 02font00Yes, but as noted, this refers to the people while China refers to the whole country (eg the land, the people, every
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0 China can only be used as the short name of the country PRC(People's republic of China). 02br
00Chinese can be be used in 2 ways:02br
00The first one is to be used as adjective,e.g. the Chinese tradition02br
00The second way is to be use as a none, which refer to the ethnicity of Chinese people.People usually think Chinese is from China, which is not totally
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