Meaning

3 senses
  1. The whole territory of China, including China proper, Tibet, Manchuria, Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia.

  2. The historic territories of China or its tributary states, or the imagined future territories of China, including e.g. Taiwan, Outer Mongolia, Indochina, and Outer Manchuria.

  3. Majority Chinese-speaking territories in East Asia taken as a whole.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Apple will close all its retail stores worldwide, except those in Greater China, for the next two weeks.

    deIn den nächsten zwei Wochen bleiben sämtliche Einzelhandelsgeschäfte von Apple weltweit, mit Ausnahme derer in Großchina, geschlossen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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