Chinese

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: Chinese

1	adj n	of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China
2	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

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: Chinese

“Chinese food”

Types:: show 4 types...; hide 4 types...; 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

Types:: show 5 types...; hide 5 types...; 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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