About The Word Chinese
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What's The Definition Of Chinese?
[n] any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China (regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system)
[n] a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China [adj] of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures; "Chinese food" [adj] of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language; "the Taiwanese capital is Taipeh" Synonyms | Synonyms for Chinese: Formosan | Taiwanese Related Terms | Find terms related to Chinese: See Also | Amoy | Asian | Asiatic | Beijing dialect | Cantonese | Cantonese dialect | China | Chinaman | chink | Communist China | Fukien | Fukkianese | Hakka | Hakka dialect | Hokkianese | mainland China | mandarin | Mandarin | Mandarin Chinese | Mandarin dialect | Min | Min dialect | Nationalist China | People's Republic of China | PRC | Red China | Republic of China | Shanghai dialect | Sinitic | Sinitic language | Taiwan | Taiwanese | Wu | Wu dialect | Yue | Yue dialect Chinese In Webster's Dictionary \Chi"nese"\, a.
Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China.
{Chinese paper}. See {India paper}, under {India}.
{Chinese wax}, a snowy-white, waxlike substance brought from
China. It is the bleached secretion of certain insects of
the family {Coccid[ae]} especially {Coccus Sinensis}.
\Chi*nese"\, n. sing. & pl. 1. A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China. 2. sing. The language of China, which is monosyllabic. Note: Chineses was used as a plural by the contemporaries of Shakespeare and Milton. |
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