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English adjective: Chinese | |||
| 1. | Chinese of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures | ||
| Samples | Chinese food. | ||
| 2. | Chinese of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language | ||
| Samples | The Taiwanese capital is Taipeh. | ||
| Synonyms | Formosan, Taiwanese | ||
English noun: Chinese | |||
| 1. | Chinese (communication) 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 | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | Sinitic, Sinitic language | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | Amoy, Beijing dialect, Cantonese, Cantonese dialect, Fukien, Fukkianese, Hakka, Hakka dialect, Hokkianese, Mandarin, Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin dialect, Min, Min dialect, Shanghai dialect, Taiwanese, Wu, Wu dialect, Yue, Yue dialect | ||
| Domain region | Cathay, China, Communist China, mainland China, People's Republic of China, PRC, Red China | ||
| 2. | Chinese (person) a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | Asian, Asiatic | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | Boxer, Chinaman, chink, Hakka, mandarin | ||
| Member meronym | Cathay, China, China, Communist China, mainland China, Nationalist China, People's Republic of China, PRC, Red China, Republic of China, Taiwan | ||
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