How to pronounce “china”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (uncountable) Synonym of porcelain, a hard white translucent ceramic made from kaolin, now (chiefly US) sometimes distinguished in reference to tableware as fine or good china.
• (uncountable) Chinaware: porcelain tableware.
• (uncountable, chiefly US, dated) Cheaper and lower-quality ceramic and ceramic tableware, distinguished from porcelain.
• (uncountable) Synonym of China root, the root of Smilax china (particularly) as a medicine.
• (uncountable, obsolete) Synonym of cheyney: worsted or woolen stuff.
• (countable) Synonym of China rose, in its various senses.
• (countable, Cockney rhyming slang, Australia, South Africa) Synonym of mate (rhyme of china-plate).
• (uncountable, dated) Tea from China, (particularly) varieties cured by smoking or opposed to Indian cultivars.
• (countable, games, chiefly US, obsolete) A glazed china marble.
• (countable, music) A kind of drum cymbal approximating a Chinese style of cymbal, but usually with Turkish influences.

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Similar Sounds

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