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Taiwanese

DEFINITIONS OF: Taiwanese

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adj of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language

“the Taiwanese capital is Taipeh”
Synonyms:
Chinese, Formosan

n a native or inhabitant of Taiwan

Type of:
Asian, Asiatic
a native or inhabitant of Asia

n any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province

Synonyms:
Amoy, Fukien, Fukkianese, Hokkianese, Min, Min dialect
Type of:
Chinese
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
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