chinese

adjective

  1. 1

    of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures

    Chinese food

  2. 2

    of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language

    the Taiwanese capital is Taipeh

general

  1. 1

    Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China. Chinese paper. See India paper, under India. -- Chinese wax, a snowy-wgite, waxlike substance brought from China. It is the bleached secretion of certain insects of the family Coccidæ especially Coccus Sinensis.

  2. 2

    A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China.

  3. 3

    sing. The language of China, which is monosyllabic. Note: Chineses was used as a plural by the contemporaries of Shakespeare and Milton.

    Chinese food

noun

  1. 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

  2. 2

    a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China

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