Trung Quốc

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

  • (abbreviation) TQ

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 中國, composed of (center) and (country). Doublet of Tung Của.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Trung Quốc

  1. China
  2. (history, only by the Nguyễn Dynasty) the self-denomination of Vietnam during Nguyễn dynasty independence period (19th century).[1]

Adjective

Trung Quốc

  1. Chinese

See also

References

  1. Woodside, Alexander (1988) Vietnam and the Chinese model: a comparative study of Vietnamese and Chinese government in the first half of the nineteenth century, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, page 18
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