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  1. 1. a. Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. sing. & pl. A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China. Source: opted
  3. 3. n. sing. & pl. The language of China, which is monosyllabic. Source: opted
  4. 4. adj. of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures Source: wordnet
  5. 5. adj. of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language Source: wordnet
  6. 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 Source: wordnet
  7. 7. n. a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China Source: wordnet
  8. 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. Source: webster
  9. 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. Source: adambom
  10. 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 Source: ecdict

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