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Origin of the name CHINA.
Etymology of the
name CHINA.
Meaning of the baby name CHINA.
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| CHINA (חִנָּה).
In Kolatch's Complete Dictionary of English and Hebrew
First Names, this is an Aramaic girl's name, meaning "grace,"
and has the variant Hina.
CHINA.
From the country name, "China." In use in England and America.
From Chinese chung-kwo,
i.e. the "middle nation"; chung middle, kwo, kwe,
a general name for a state or nation, a kingdom, an empire. "A
name," says Morrison, "claimed for Arabia by some of the
Mohamedan writers in China." This word may have come through the
Persian or Arabic. The Buddhists write Che-na; the Persians chín.
Others say China derives its name from that of the dynasty of Tsin. The
natives sometimes call it Tang-shan, "Hills of Tang,"
the name of one of their most celebrated dynasties. China was known to
the ancients under the name of Sinæ and Seres. (Local Etymology,
Charnock, 1859)
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