English Dictionary

china

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈt͡ʃaɪnə/

名詞

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(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.

日本語の意味

磁器

The delicate china surprised everyone with its intricate hand-painted pattern.

繊細な磁器は精緻な手描き模様で皆を驚かせた。

意味（1）

(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.

It's a china doll.

意味（2）

(uncountable) Chinaware: porcelain tableware.

They sell Callicoes, Cheney Sattin, Cheney ware.

意味（3）

(uncountable, chiefly US, dated) Cheaper and lower-quality ceramic and ceramic tableware, distinguished from porcelain.

What is porcelain? A fine earthenware differing from china in being harder, whiter, harder to fuse and more translucent than ordinary pottery.

意味（4）

(uncountable) Synonym of China root, the root of Smilax china (particularly) as a medicine.

China, saith Manardus, makes a good colour in the face, takes away melancholy, and all infirmities proceeding from cold […].

意味（5）

(uncountable, obsolete) Synonym of cheyney: worsted or woolen stuff.

...And then the last boon I'll implore, Is to bless us with China so tight...

意味（6）

(countable) Synonym of China rose, in its various senses.

Rosa indica (the common China); Rosa semperflorens (the monthly China).

意味（7）

(countable, Cockney rhyming slang, Australia, South Africa) Synonym of friend.

‘Now, then, my china-plate...’ This is essentially a brick~layer's phrase. If for ‘china-plate’ you substitute ‘mate’,... the puzzle is revealed.

意味（8）

(uncountable, dated) Tea from China, (particularly) varieties cured by smoking or opposed to Indian cultivars.

Tea... Finest China, Plain (Moning).

意味（9）

(countable, games, chiefly US, obsolete) A glazed china marble.

The marbles, in those days, had their primitive names. The unglazed china ones were called plasters because they looked like plaster; the glazed china marbles were called chinas. I remember how charming were the partly colored lines which encircled them.

意味（10）

(countable, music) A kind of drum cymbal approximating a Chinese style of cymbal, but usually with Turkish influences.

China cymbals are a type of short sound cymbal. [Brand X] makes chinas with really short sounds.

chinas （ plural ）