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Chinese
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Chinese has 2 senses
- chinese(n = noun.communication) Array - 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; Array is a kind of sinitic, sinitic language
- chinese(n = noun.person) Array - a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China; Array 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: 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
is a kind of asian, asiatic
has particulars: chinaman, chink, boxer, hakka, mandarin
Adjective Chinese has 2 senses
- chinese(a = adj.pert) Array - of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures; "Chinese food"
- 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"
CIDE DICTIONARY
Chinese, a.
Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China. [1913 Webster]
Chinese, n. sing. & pl.
- A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China. [1913 Webster]
- The language of China, which is monosyllabic. [1913 Webster]" Chineses was used as a plural by the contemporaries of Shakespeare and Milton." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
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.
--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.
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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