中国 Zhōngguò▶ Tiongkok

Stroke order

中国 is written in 12 strokes across 2 characters.

• 中 — 4 strokes
• 国 — 8 strokes

Example sentences

• 我想去中国。Wǒ xiǎng qù Zhōngguó.I want to go to China.
• 中国有很多人。Zhōngguó yǒu hěn duō rén.China has many people.

Related words

• 中午tengah hari
• 中文Bahasa Mandarin; orang Tiongkok
• 中间Tengah
• 国家Negara
• 其中di antara
• 国籍kebangsaan

中国 is pronounced Zhōngguò and means “Tiongkok”. HSK 1 places it in the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, the standardised measure of Chinese proficiency. There is a real difference between having seen 中国 and being able to use it, and cramming a list flatters the first while doing little for the second. LexiTrail shows you the word again at the point your recall of it is about to lapse.