chinese
中文,中文的
Definitions
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plural Chi·nese.
- : the standard language of China, based on the speech of Beijing; Mandarin.
- : a group of languages of the Sino-Tibetan family, including standard Chinese and most of the other languages of China. Abbreviations: Chin., Chin
- : any of the Chinese languages, which vary among themselves to the point of mutual unintelligibility.
- : Chinese food: We usually order Chinese from a cheap place across the street.
- : a native or descendant of a native of China.
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- : of or relating to China, its inhabitants, or one of their languages.
- : noting or pertaining to the partly logographic, partly phonetic script used for the writing of Chinese, Japanese, and other languages, consisting of thousands of brushstroke characters written in vertical columns from right to left.
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Examples
The family was taking some private moments for a closing of the coffin in keeping with Chinese ritual.
Monitoring Chinese social-media platforms has paid off for the Chinese government.
HONG KONG—Last year, I met a Chinese graduate student on a tour of the northeastern United States before his first day at Harvard.
We ought to seek Chinese cooperation in a response to this North Korean act of aggression.
Some experts suggest that other parties, perhaps Iranian or Chinese, may have played some role.
Then there was Wee Wo,—he was a little Chinese chap, and we used to send him down the chimneys to open front doors for us.
Undesirable inhabitants of the country are being sent away, especially the Japanese, who are more dangerous than the Chinese.
Rich natives and Chinese lost large sums of money, the total of which cannot be ascertained.
Besides, we now know that the plant which furnishes the Chinese tobacco is even said to grow wild in the East Indies.
Truly, with four or five thousand Chinese, the community would be well served and the country free from danger.