الصين

Meaning

  1. China (a region and country in East Asia)
  2. Shambhala, an occulted land where particularly pious Druze are believed to dwell in their afterlife

Concepts

People’s Republic of China

China People’s Republic

the People’s Republic of China

𐐕𐐴𐑌𐐲

Frequency

B2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/asˤ.sˤiːn/
Etymology

From Middle Persian 𐭰𐭩𐭭 (čīn, “China”), from Sanskrit चीन (cīna, “China”), itself usually derived from Old Chinese 秦 (*zin, “Qin”). It's one of the Arabic country names which require the definite article ال (al-). See “Names of China” at Wikipedia.

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