Chinese symbol for “civil”
国内
guó nèi
Traditional: 國內
domestic; internal (to a country); civil
The closest CC-CEDICT match for civil is 国内 (guó nèi), defined as: domestic; internal (to a country); civil.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “civil”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 国内.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 国家 (國家) | guó jiā | country; nation; state |
| 国际 (國際) | guó jì | international |
| 全国 (全國) | quán guó | whole nation; nationwide |
| 我国 (我國) | wǒ guó | my country; our country |
| 外国 (外國) | wài guó | foreign country |
| 内容 (內容) | nèi róng | content; substance; details; 项 (xiàng) |
| 内部 (內部) | nèi bù | interior; inside (part, section) |
| 境内 (境內) | jìng nèi | within the borders; internal (to a country, province, city etc) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “civil”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.