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天朝

Tiān cháo

2-character word

What 天朝 means

1. Celestial Empire, tributary title conferred on imperial China
2. Taiping Heavenly Kingdom

The characters in 天朝

• 天tiānday; sky; heaven
• 朝zhāomorning

Sounds the same

Read Tiān cháo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 兲朝(derog.) the Chinese Communist regime (variant of 天朝

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