震旦 zhèndàn

zhèndàn proper noun China
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Ancient Indian name for China (CC-CEDICT '震旦'; Guoyu '震旦'; Mathews 1931 '震旦', p. 39)

Contained in

• 震旦纪(震旦紀) Sinian (c. 800-542 million years ago), late phase of pre-Cambrian geological era
• 震旦鸦雀(震旦鴉雀) reed parrotbill (Paradoxornis heudei)

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷五十四 列傳第四十八 諸夷 Volume 54: Various Barbarians Book of Liang 梁書 — count: 3
• 卷二百二十一上列傳第一百四十六上西域上 Volume 221a Biographies 146a: Western Regions 1 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 2
• 卷一百九十八 列傳第一百四十八: 西戎 Volume 198 Biographies 148: Western Regions Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 1
• 卷九十七 列傳第五十七 夷蠻 Volume 97 Biographies 57: Yi Man Book of Song 宋書 — count: 1
• 黄山 Mount Huangshan (1990) Media articles — count: 1

Collocations

• 摩诃震旦 (摩訶震旦) 自古曾有摩訶震旦使人至吾國乎 — Old Book of Tang 舊唐書, 卷一百九十八 列傳第一百四十八: 西戎 Volume 198 Biographies 148: Western Regions — count: 3