Definitions of Chinese
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of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures“Chinese food”
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of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language
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a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China
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Boxer
a member of a nationalistic Chinese secret society that led an unsuccessful rebellion in 1900 against foreign interests in China
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Hakka
a member of a people of southeastern China (especially Hong Kong, Canton, and Taiwan) who migrated from the north in the 12th century
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mandarin
a high public official of imperial China
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Boxer
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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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Beijing dialect, Mandarin, Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin dialect
the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China
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Shanghai dialect, Wu, Wu dialect
a dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta
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Cantonese, Cantonese dialect, Yue, Yue dialect
the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China
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Amoy, Fukien, Fukkianese, Hokkianese, Min, Min dialect, Taiwanese
any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province
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Hakka, Hakka dialect
a dialect of Chinese spoken in southeastern China by the Hakka
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Sinitic, Sinitic language
a group of Sino-Tibetan languages
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