Chinese
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(adjective) of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures; "Chinese food" |
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(noun) 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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Related Words: Amoy, Beijing dialect, Cantonese, Cantonese dialect, Fukien, Fukkianese, Hakka, Hakka dialect, Hokkianese, Mandarin, Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin dialect, Min, Min dialect, Shanghai dialect, Sinitic, Sinitic language, Taiwanese, Wu, Wu dialect, Yue, Yue dialect |
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(noun) a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China |
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Related Words: Asian, Asiatic, Chinaman, chink, mandarin |
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(adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language; "the Taiwanese capital is Taipeh" |
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Synonyms: Formosan, Taiwanese |
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