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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 |
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| Broader (hypernym) | Sinitic, Sinitic language |
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| 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 |
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| Domain region | Cathay, China, Communist China, mainland China, People's Republic of China, PRC, Red China |
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2. | Chinese (person) a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China |
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| Broader (hypernym) | Asian, Asiatic |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | Boxer, Chinaman, chink, Hakka, mandarin |
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| 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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