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Plural of china

regular plural

The plural of china is chinas.

Forms of china

Singularchina /ˈt͡ʃaɪnə/
Pluralchinas
Countablecountable and uncountable

Chinas in a sentence

  • The unglazed china ones were called plasters because they looked like plaster; the glazed china marbles were called chinas.1932 March, Dan Beard, “New-Fashioned Kites and Old-Fashioned Marbles”, in Boys' Life, page 27

Meaning of china

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun Chinaware: porcelain tableware.
  3. noun Cheaper and lower-quality ceramic and ceramic tableware, distinguished from porcelain.

Full definition of china

Questions about the plural of china

What is the plural of china?
The plural of china is chinas.
Is china countable?
China is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: china (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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