chinese
Noun · AdjectiveUS[chahy-neez]/tʃaɪˈniz/2 syllables
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Adjective (2)
Noun (2)
- 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 systemType of Sinitic, Sinitic languageKinds Min, Hakka, Mandarin, Wu, Yue
- a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist ChinaType of Asian, AsiaticKinds Hakka, Boxer, chink, mandarinMember of China, Taiwan
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Translations
Proper noun the standard language of China
- Spanish
- chino
- French
- chinois
- German
- Chinesisch
- Italian
- cinese
- Portuguese
- chinês
- Turkish
- Çince
- Russian
- кита́йский язы́к kitájskij jazýk
- Arabic
- الصِّينِيَّة aṣ-ṣīniyya
- Chinese
- 中文 Zhōngwén
- Japanese
- 中国語 chūgokugo
35 more languages
- Dutch
- Chinees
- Polish
- chiński
- Swedish
- kinesiska
- Greek
- κινέζικα kinézika
- Korean
- 중국어 junggugeo
- Indonesian
- bahasa Mandarin
- Vietnamese
- tiếng Trung Quốc
- Hungarian
- kínai
- Portuguese (PT)
- chinês
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 中文 zhōngwén
- Albanian
- kinezisht
- Breton
- sinaeg
- Catalan
- xinès
- Czech
- čínština
- Danish
- kinesisk
- Esperanto
- ĉina
- Estonian
- hiina keel
- Finnish
- kiina
- Georgian
- ჩინური činuri
- Hebrew
- סִינִית sínit
- Icelandic
- kínverska
- Kurdish
- çînî
- Latvian
- ķīniešu
- Lithuanian
- kinų kalba
- Malagasy
- sinoa
- Norwegian
- kinesisk
- Romanian
- chineză
- Scottish Gaelic
- Sìonais
- Serbo-Croatian
- kineski
- Slovak
- čínština
- Slovenian
- kitajščina
- Swahili
- Kichina
- Walloon
- chinwès
- Welsh
- Tsieineeg
- Yiddish
- כינעזיש khinezish
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Chi′nese′ adjective
Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China.
Chinese paper. See India paper, under India. — Chinese wax, a snowy-white, waxlike substance brought from China. It is the bleached secretion of certain insects of the family Coccidæ especially Coccus Sinensis.
Chi·nese′ noun (singular & plural)
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.
☞ Chineses was used as a plural by the contemporaries of Shakespeare and Milton.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54