, English: 1. Zhongguo -China

, China, the modern nation-state today; the People's Republic of China (PRC); "transhistoric" China including current nationstate, the dynastic periods, and the pre-historic civilizations found within the space now occupied by the PRC; the PRC authorities

D. Zhongguo, Greater China" -mainland China, Taiwan, Hongkong, Macao, Chinese" both 20th-century republics: Republic of China, 1912.

, People's Republic of China, 1949.

, Greater China" -mainland China, Taiwan, Hongkong, Macao, and even the Chinese Diaspora

H. Chinese,