In this lesson, you will find out how to reveal countries in Chinese, and we will give you some helpful tips to help you remember them much more easily.
Grammar
| How to express countries in Chinese | ||||
| In Chinese, there are mostly 2 kinds of country names. One is to utilize a word (generally a noun or an adj.) + 国 (guó, a noun which means nation in Chinese), as well as the various other is to directly convert their English pronunciations right into Chinese. | ||||
| Type | Country | |||
| English | Pinyin | Characters | National flag | |
| Noun/Adj. + guó 国 (country) | China | zhōng guó | 中国 | |
| America | měi guó | 美国 | ||
| France | fǎ guó | 法国 | ||
| England | yīng guó | 英国 | ||
| Germany | dé guó | 德国 | ||
| Korea | hán guó | 韩国 | ||
| Russia | é guó | 俄国 | ||
| Thailand | tài guó | 泰国 | ||
| Directly translated from the English pronunciation | Canada | jiā ná dà | 加拿大 | |
| Italy | yì dà lì | 意大利 | ||
| Spain | xī bān yá | 西班牙 | ||
| Australia | ào dà lì yà | 澳大利亚 | ||
