Definitions for: Chinese

[n] 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)
[n] a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China
[adj] of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures; "Chinese food"
[adj] of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language; "the Taiwanese capital is Taipeh"

Webster (1913) Definition: Chi"nese", a.
Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China.

Chinese paper. See India paper, under India.

Chinese wax, a snowy-white, waxlike substance brought from
China. It is the bleached secretion of certain insects of
the family Coccid[ae] especially Coccus Sinensis.

Chi*nese", n. sing. & pl.
1. A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race
with oblique eyelids who live principally in China.

2. sing. The language of China, which is monosyllabic.

Note: Chineses was used as a plural by the contemporaries of
Shakespeare and Milton.

Synonyms: Formosan, Taiwanese

See Also: Amoy, Asian, Asiatic, Beijing dialect, Cantonese, Cantonese dialect, China, Chinaman, chink, Communist China, Fukien, Fukkianese, Hakka, Hakka dialect, Hokkianese, mainland China, mandarin, Mandarin, Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin dialect, Min, Min dialect, Nationalist China, People's Republic of China, PRC, Red China, Republic of China, Shanghai dialect, Sinitic, Sinitic language, Taiwan, Taiwanese, Wu, Wu dialect, Yue, Yue dialect

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