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Dictionary: Chi·nese (chī-nēz', -nēs') pronunciation

adj.
Of or relating to China or its peoples, languages, or cultures.

n., pl., Chinese.

1. A native or inhabitant of China.
2. A person of Chinese ancestry.
3. See Han¹.
1. The sole member of the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family, consisting of numerous languages and dialects such as Mandarin, Cantonese, Taiwanese, and Fujian.
2. Any of the Sinitic varieties of speech spoken by the Chinese people.
3. The official national language of China; Mandarin.

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The noun has 2 meanings:

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)

Meaning #2: a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China

The adjective Chinese has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures
Pertains to noun: China (meaning #3)

Meaning #2: of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language
Synonyms: Taiwanese, Formosan

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Chinese refers to anything pertaining to China.

Chinese people, people of Chinese ethnicity and/or nationality
- Zhonghua minzu, the supra-ethnic Chinese nationality
- Han Chinese, the dominant ethnic group in mainland China and Taiwan
- Ethnic minorities in China, the non-Han Chinese population in mainland China and Taiwan
- Overseas Chinese, people of Chinese ancestry who live outside mainland China and Taiwan

Chinese language, a language or language family that forms part of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages
- Standard Mandarin, the standard spoken form of the Chinese language and most commonly taught as a foreign language. It is also an official spoken form in mainland China and Taiwan, and the predominantly Chinese Singapore.
- Standard Cantonese, often officially referred to as "Chinese" in the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau in the People's Republic of China
- Spoken Chinese, variants of the Chinese language in spoken form

Written Chinese, the writing system of China. See also Chinese character (Hanzi)
- Hanja Chinese characters used in writing Korean language
- Kanji Chinese characters used in writing Japanese language
- Romanization of Chinese, with several systems
- Simplified Chinese characters, officially used in Mainland China, Singapore and Malaysia, and used in some Overseas Chinese communities.
- Traditional Chinese characters, officially used in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, and used by many Overseas Chinese communities.

Chinese cuisine, styles of cooking originating from China

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