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 guó jiā country / nation / state / CL:個|个[ge4]
 jiāng shān rivers and mountains / landscape / country / state power
 guó dù country / nation
 guó country / nation / state / national / CL:個|个[ge4]
 shè jì state / country / the Gods of earth and grain
 bì guì yuán Country
 wǒ guó our country / China
 Jiāng hú rivers and lakes / all corners of the country / remote areas to which hermits retreat / section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law / the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wu3 xia2]) / (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc / demimonde / (in modern times) triads / secret gangster societies / underworld
 nán fāng south / the southern part of the country / the South
 běi fāng north / the northern part a country / China north of the Yellow River
 gè guó each country / every country / various countries
 chū guó to go abroad / to leave the country / emigration
 wài dì parts of the country other than where one is
 jìng nèi within the borders / internal (to a country, province, city etc) / domestic
 quán guó gè dì every part of the country
 jīng chéng capital of a country
 běn tǔ one's native country / native / local / metropolitan territory
 jù tóu tycoon / magnate / big player (including company, country, school etc) / big shot
 huí guó to return to one's home country
 ài guó to love one's country / patriotic
 jiàn guó to found a country / nation-building / the foundation of PRC by Mao Zedong in 1949
 tiān xià dì yī first under heaven / number one in the country
 běn guó one's own country
 guó qíng the characteristics and circumstances particular to a country / current state of a country
 liù hé the six directions (north, south, east, west, up, down) / the whole country / the universe / everything under the sun
 fā zhǎn zhōng guó jiā developing country
 chū jìng to leave a country or region / outbound (tourism)
 rù jìng to enter a country
 yuè yě cross country
 qiáng guó powerful country / great power
 zhì guó to rule a country
 shān dì mountainous region / hilly area / hilly country
 dìng jū to settle (in some city, country etc) / to take up residence
 chéng yuán guó member country
 yì yù foreign country / alien land
 shān hé mountains and rivers / the whole country
 jīng shī capital of a country (literary)
 lín jiā next-door neighbor / neighboring household / adjacent country (short for 鄰接的國家|邻接的国家[lin2 jie1 de5 guo2 jia1])
 zǒng sī lìng commander-in-chief / top military commander for a country or theater of operations
 yuán yě plain / open country
 xīng guó to invigorate the country
 xiāng jiān in the country / rural / pastoral
 lín guó bordering country / neighbor country / neighboring countries / surrounding countries
 bì guān to close the passes / to seal off the country / seclusion (monastic practice, e.g. of Chan Buddhists)
 běi guó the northern part of the country / the North
 wèi guó to defend one's country
 kāi guó to found a state / to open a closed country
 bào guó to dedicate oneself to the service of one's country
 huán yóu to travel around (the world, a country etc)
 yà zhōu guó jiā Asian country / Asian nation
 guó jiā yī jí country level
 gǔ guó ancient country
 yī guó liǎng zhì one country, two systems (PRC proposal regarding Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan)
 tā guó another country
 xiāng xià rén country folk / rustic / rural folk
 bàn bì jiāng shān half of the country (esp. when half the country has fallen into enemy hands) / vast swathe of territory
 jǔ guó the entire country
 wǔ hú sì hǎi all parts of the country
 lì guó to found a country
 tiān nán dì běi distant places / all over the country / (to talk) about this and that
 gù tǔ native country / one's homeland
 guó shǒu (sports) member of the national team / national representative / (medicine, chess etc) one of the most highly skilled practitioners in one's country
 guì guó your distinguished country
绿 qīng shān lu:4 shuǐ lit. green hills and clear waters / pleasant country scene (idiom)
 kē jiào xīng guó to invigorate the country through science and education
 fù guó rich country / make the country wealthy (political slogan)
 chuǎng dàng jiāng hú to travel around the country
 yù wài outside the country / abroad / foreign / extraterritorial
 shēng chǎn guó producing country
 guó míng name of country
 cūn gū village girl / country bumpkin
 dí guó enemy country
 mài guó to betray one's country
 gù guó country with an ancient history
 jìn chū jìng entering and leaving a country
 dà Xià Han Chinese name for an ancient Central Asia country
 xiāng cūn yīn yuè country music (country & western music genre)
 fú yuán size (i.e. area) of a country, geographical region or school campus etc / (fig.) scope / extent
 ān bāng to bring peace and stability to a country, region etc
 mín (bound form) the people / inhabitants of a country
  consuming country
 jīng zhào capital of a country
 Fěi jì Fiji, country in the southwest Pacific Ocean
 píng tiān xià to pacify the country
 Chǔ cí Chu Ci, the Songs of Chu (ancient book of poems, collected during Han but esp. from country of Chu c. 500 BC)
 sǐ nàn zhě victim of an accident / casualty / martyr for one's country
 zǒu jiāng hú to travel around the country (as itinerant peddler or entertainer)
 tǔ bāo zi country bumpkin / boor / unsophisticated country person (humble, applied to oneself) / burial mound
 xùn guó to die for one's country
 qióng guó poor country
 qín wáng to serve the king diligently / to save the country in times of danger / to send troops to rescue the king
 guó tài mín ān the country prospers, the people at peace (idiom) / peace and prosperity
 lín bāng neighboring state / adjacent country
 jǔ guó shàng xià the entire nation / the whole country, from the leadership to the rank and file
 huò guó yāng mín to damage the country and cause suffering to the people (idiom)
 qiú zhǎng guó Emirate / Sheikdom / used as translation for country under a chief
 yī mǎ píng chuān flat land one could gallop straight across (idiom) / wide expanse of flat country
 zòng héng chí chěng to criss-cross / to run unhindered across the whole country
 wài xiāng another part of the country / some other place
 Bā sī kè Basque / the Basque Country
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