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Code for America is an organization founded by Jennifer Pahlka which brings together volunteer coders to try to help the government move into the digital age so that its systems can work more efficiently and serve people in a better way. ShaoLan teaches Jennifer how to say “America” in Chinese, which is quite flattering because the word literally means “beautiful country.”.However, it was a bit of a fluke, because the character for “beautiful” was chosen because of the sound of the character as opposed to the meaning, but as Jennifer says “what a happy accident!”

The way to say America in Chinese is 美國/美国. The first character means “beauty” and the second character means “country” or “kingdom.”. The “beautiful country” is “America”!

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USA
美國 / 美国
měi guó
Beautiful
měi
Country
國 / 国
guó
China
中國 / 中国
zhōng guó
Middle
zhōng
France
法國 / 法国
fà guó
England
英國 / 英国
yīng guó
Australia
澳洲
ào zhōu
American
美國人 / 美国人
měi guó rén
North America
北美
běi měi
North, northern
běi
Canada
加拿大
jiā ná dà
To add
jiā
To take
American Dream
美國夢 / 美国梦
měi guó mèng
Dream
夢 / 梦
mèng

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