chinese

1. Of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures (synset 302976327)
   "Chinese food"
2. 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"
   same as: formosan, taiwanese

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 (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 world
   is a type of: sinitic, sinitic language - a group of Sino-Tibetan languages
   subtypes:

   • 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
2. A native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China (synset 109717504)
   is a type of: asian, asiatic - a native or inhabitant of Asia
   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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