chinese
adjective
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of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures
Chinese food
- 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
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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
A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China.
- 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
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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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a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China
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