What is "chinese" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does chinese mean in English? Meaning of chinese definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "chinese" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "chinese": 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

Noun

  • Meaning: 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
  • Synonyms: chinese
  • Hyponyms: 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
  • Hypernyms: sinitic sinitic language
  • Meaning of "chinese": of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures

    Adjective

  • Meaning: of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures
  • Example: Chinese food
  • Synonyms: chinese
  • Meaning of "chinese": a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China

    Noun

  • Meaning: a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China
  • Synonyms: chinese
  • Hyponyms: boxer chinaman chink hakka mandarin
  • Hypernyms: asian asiatic
  • Meaning of "chinese": of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language

    Adjective

  • Meaning: of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language
  • Example: the Taiwanese capital is Taipeh
  • Synonyms: chinese formosan taiwanese
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    byzantine, Korean, Asian, Japanese,

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