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米國

简米国 · 繁米國

Mandarin · pinyin Mǐ guó

United States
name of a country that formerly existed near Samarkand

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米: mǐ · hulled or husked uncooked rice
國: Look up this written character
国: guó · nation, country, nation-state

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3–2 · Mi3 guo2

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name · Etymology 1

(Internet slang, often humorous, rare of Taiwanese Hokkien, Taiwanese Hakka, Northeastern Mandarin) the United States of America

name · Etymology 2

an ancient state in Central Asia, somewhere in present-day Tajikistan

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