Middle Kingdom

专有名词
中文释义

英文释义

专有名词
  1. China. literary
    — But though this Kingdom of China doth often change its Lord and Name, the Chineſes however have time out of mind called it by two other particular names, as Chungchoa, and Chungque ; the firſt whereof ſignifies The Middle Kingdom ; and the other, the Middle Garden.
  2. Egypt from the time of its reunification under Mentuhotep II in the 11th Dynasty (ending the First Intermediate Period) to its disintegration during the 13th Dynasty and the beginning of the Second Intermediate Period. historical

词形变化

the Middle Kingdom canonical the Middle Kingdom canonical

词源

词源 1
Calque from Chinese 中國／中国 (Zhōngguó).
词源 2
Calque of German Mittleres Reich, eventually displacing Middle Empire, an older calque of the same term. Coined c. 1840 as part of a periodization of Ancient Egyptian history into Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms.
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