Chinese (Noun)

Meaning ¹

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.

Classification

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.

Hypernyms

• Sinitic Language

Hyponyms

• Cantonese
• Hakka Dialect
• Shanghai Dialect
• Wu Dialect
• Taiwanese
• Cantonese Dialect
• Fukien
• Mandarin Chinese
• Beijing Dialect
• Fukkianese
• Hokkianese
• Min Dialect
• Yue Dialect
• Amoy
• Mandarin Dialect

Meaning ²

A native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China.

Classification

Nouns denoting people.

Hypernyms

• Asiatic

Hyponyms

• Chinaman