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Vocabulary 詞語 cí yǔ
Name of Counties 國家名称

English	Chinese	Putonghua
China	中國	zhōng guó
India	印度	yìn dù
Nepal	尼泊爾	ní bó ěr
Pakistani	巴基斯坦	bɑ̄ jī sī tɑ̌n
The Philippines	菲律賓	fēi lǜ bīn
Thailand	泰國	tɑ̀i guó
Sri Lanka	斯里蘭卡	sī lǐ lɑ́n kɑ̌
Singapore	新加坡	xīn jiɑ̄ pō
Indonesia	印度尼西亞	yìn dù ní xī yɑ̀
France	法國	fɑ̌ guó
England	英國	yīng guó
Germany	德國	dé guó
Canada	加拿大	jiɑ̄ nɑ́ dɑ̀
Italy	意大利	yì dɑ̀ lì
USA	美國	měi guó
Japan	日本	rì běn
Korea	韓國	hɑ́n guó
Australia	澳大利亞	ɑ̀o dɑ̀ lì yɑ̀

1. We add “ rén ” (人) at the end of each country to show the people of that country. e.g., “zhōng guó rén” (中國人) Chinese.
2. “guó” literally means “country” (國家). Hence “fɑ̌ guó” is France (法國) and “yīng guó” is The United Kingdom (英國). However, the Putonghua names of some other countries in the table above are apparently the phonetic equivalents of the English sounds, for example: “jiɑ̄ nɑ́ dɑ̀” for Canada (加拿大), “bɑ̄ jī sī tɑ̌n” for Pakistan (巴基斯坦) and “yì dɑ̀ lì” for Italy (意大利).

1. We add “ rén ” (人) at the end of each country to show the people of that country. e.g., “zhōng guó rén” (中國人) Chinese.

2. “guó” literally means “country” (國家). Hence “fɑ̌ guó” is France (法國) and “yīng guó” is The United Kingdom (英國). However, the Putonghua names of some other countries in the table above are apparently the phonetic equivalents of the English sounds, for example: “jiɑ̄ nɑ́ dɑ̀” for Canada (加拿大), “bɑ̄ jī sī tɑ̌n” for Pakistan (巴基斯坦) and “yì dɑ̀ lì” for Italy (意大利).