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Chinese
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Chinese
adj.
of or pertaining to China
n.
language spoken in China
n.
native or resident of China; the Chinese people
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Chinese
Chinese can refer to:
- Something of, from, or related to China
- People possessing Chinese citizenship.
- Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, or one of several Chinese ethnicities
- Zhonghua minzu (中華民族), the supra-ethnic Chinese nationality
- Han Chinese, the dominant ethnic group in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Malaysia
- List of ethnic groups in China
- Ethnic minorities in China, the non-Han Chinese population in China
- Overseas Chinese, people of Chinese ancestry who live outside mainland China,Hong Kong and Taiwan. It could also mean Chinese citizens who migrated to other countries.
- Chinese language, a language or family of languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China
- Standard Chinese, the standard form of the Chinese (Mandarin) language in mainland China, Taiwan and Singapore, and the variety most commonly taught as a foreign language
- other varieties of Chinese
- Written Chinese, the writing system of China
- Chinese cuisine, styles of cooking originating from China
- American Chinese cuisine
- Chinese Peak (California), a mountain
- Chinese Peak (Idaho), a mountain
- "Chinese Gordon", a nickname of Charles George Gordon (1833–1885), British military commander and administrator
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Chinese
Noun
1. 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
(hypernym) Sinitic, Sinitic language
(hyponym) Mandarin, Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin dialect, Beijing dialect
(classification) China, People's Republic of China, mainland China, Communist China, Red China, PRC
2. a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China
(hypernym) Asian, Asiatic
(hyponym) chink, Chinaman
(member-holonym) China, People's Republic of China, mainland China, Communist China, Red China, PRC
Adjective
1. of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures; "Chinese food"
(pertainym) Taiwan, China, Nationalist China, Republic of China
2. of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language; "the Taiwanese capital is Taipeh"
(synonym) Taiwanese, Formosan
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Chinese (der)
nm.
Chinese, Chinese citizen, resident of China; one of Chinese origin
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Chinees
adj.
Chinese, of or pertaining to China (country in eastern Asia)
n.
Chinese, one of Chinese origin, resident of China, person of Chinese origin (country in eastern Asia)
