Talk:Names of China

Latest comment: 2 months ago by Remsense in topic Removing exhaustive translations

Aksai Chin edit

Aksai Chin (a Hindi name) is a region that India claims over China as a part of India. Given that the Hindi name for China is Chin, doesn't the name Aksai Chin actually give the game away because even in Hindi the region is named as a part of China? 81.129.180.47 (talk) 00:40, 27 April 2013 (UTC)Reply

Chinatowns are named after China. Does that mean all Chinatowns are part of China? --Voidvector (talk) 22:17, 10 January 2020 (UTC)Reply

Ming era views of Zhongguo edit

http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/bitstream/1808/13656/1/Dardess%20Mongols.pdf
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Rajmaan (talk) 14:04, 26 July 2014

Sinica listed at Redirects for discussion edit

 

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Sinica. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 18:50, 16 July 2019 (UTC)Reply

"Chin" didn't always refer to China in other language edit

I want to point out historically "Chin" didn't always refer to China in other languages, even though its etymology was clearly from "Qin" even at the time. See the article about the Urdu poem Tarana-e-Milli. --Voidvector (talk) 22:19, 10 January 2020 (UTC)Reply

Tibet edit

Why doesn't Tibet link to anything? There is a Tibetan Autonomous Region Wiki that it could redirect to. 2601:1C2:F00:940:947:8332:7469:6BD8 (talk) 15:03, 9 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

Characters not properly rendered edit

Some characters (found here would it be possible to add a notification about text rendering? I am not familiar with how to do this, so would anyone be able to fix this issue? 165.161.20.33 (talk) 15:49, 12 April 2022 (UTC)Reply

Etymologies for sign languages edit

I added a section regarding sign language names for China, and pointed out that Hong Kong & Taiwan SL have unrelated signs—can anyone point out where those come from? Also, a handful of languages have other unrelated signs—what about those? I suspect the Polish and Turkish ones (see Spread the Sign) indicate a Mandarin’s long mustache…? שונרא (talk) 14:29, 6 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

Removing exhaustive translations edit

Since WP:Wikipedia is not a dictionary, I will be removing the exhaustive lists of translations for each name. They are fun, but ultimately not helpful for the vast majority of readers. Let me know if you have any concerns. Remsense 03:31, 13 February 2024 (UTC)Reply