1. chinese(n = noun.communication) - 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;
is a kind of sinitic, sinitic language
has particulars: beijing dialect, mandarin, mandarin chinese, mandarin dialect, shanghai dialect, wu, wu dialect, cantonese, cantonese dialect, yue, yue dialect, amoy, fukien, fukkianese, hokkianese, min, min dialect, taiwanese, hakka, hakka dialect
2. chinese(n = noun.person) - a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China;
is a kind of asian, asiatic
is a member of cathay, china, communist china, mainland china, people's republic of china, prc, red china, china, nationalist china, republic of china, taiwan
has particulars: chinaman, chink, boxer, hakka, mandarin
1. chinese(a = adj.pert) - of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures; "Chinese food"
2. chinese(a = adj.pert) formosan, taiwanese - of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language; "the Taiwanese capital is Taipeh"
Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China. [1913 Webster]
1. A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China. [1913 Webster]
2. The language of China, which is monosyllabic. [1913 Webster]
" Chineses was used as a plural by the contemporaries of Shakespeare and Milton." [1913 Webster]
chinese, adj. & n.
--adj. a of or relating to China. b of Chinese descent.
--n.
1 the Chinese language.
2 (pl. same) a a native or national of China. b a person of Chinese descent.
Idiom:
Chinese cabbage = Chinese leaf. Chinese gooseberry = kiwi fruit. Chinese lantern
1 a collapsible paper lantern.
2 a solanaceous plant, Physalis alkekengi, bearing white flowers and globular orange fruits enclosed in an orange-red papery calyx. Chinese leaf a lettuce-like cabbage, Brassica chinensis. Chinese puzzle a very intricate puzzle or problem. Chinese water chestnut see water chestnut 2. Chinese white zinc oxide as a white pigment.
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