Thesaurus: chinese

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1. a. Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China.
2. n. sing. & pl. A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China.
3. n. sing. & pl. The language of China, which is monosyllabic.
4. adj. of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures
5. adj. of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language
6. 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
7. n. a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China
8. Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China. Chinese paper. See India paper, under India. -- Chinese wax, a snowy-wgite, waxlike substance brought from China. It is the bleached secretion of certain insects of the family Coccidæ especially Coccus Sinensis. 1. A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China. 2. sing. The language of China, which is monosyllabic. Note: Chineses was used as a plural by the contemporaries of Shakespeare and Milton.
9. Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China. Chinese paper.See India paper, under India.-- Chinese wax, a snowy-wgite, waxlike substance brought from China.It is the bleached secretion of certain insects of the family Coccidæespecially Coccus Sinensis.
10. j:96/n:4 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 n. a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China a. of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures