chinese
Adjective
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Of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures (synset 302976327)
"Chinese food"
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Of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language (synset 303134068)
"the Taiwanese capital is Taipeh"
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 (synset 106942519)domain region: cathay, china, communist china, mainland china, people's republic of china, prc, red china - a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the worldis a type of: sinitic, sinitic language - a group of Sino-Tibetan languagessubtypes:- beijing dialect, mandarin, mandarin chinese, mandarin dialect - the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China
- shanghai dialect, wu, wu dialect - a dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta
- cantonese, cantonese dialect, yue, yue dialect - the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China
- amoy, fukien, fukkianese, hokkianese, min, min dialect, taiwanese - any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province
- hakka, hakka dialect - a dialect of Chinese spoken in southeastern China by the Hakka
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A native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China (synset 109717504)
subtypes:
- chinaman, chink - (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent
- boxer - a member of a nationalistic Chinese secret society that led an unsuccessful rebellion in 1900 against foreign interests in China
- hakka - a member of a people of southeastern China (especially Hong Kong, Canton, and Taiwan) who migrated from the north in the 12th century
- mandarin - a high public official of imperial China
belongs to:- cathay, china, communist china, mainland china, people's republic of china, prc, red china - a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world
- china, nationalist china, republic of china, taiwan - a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the Communists led by Mao Zedong
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