Chinese

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)

• Mandarin, Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin dialect, Beijing dialect — the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China
• Wu, Wu dialect, Shanghai dialect — a dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta
• Yue, Yue dialect, Cantonese, Cantonese dialect — the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China
• Min, Min dialect, Fukien, Fukkianese, Hokkianese, Amoy, Taiwanese — any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province
• Hakka, Hakka dialect — a dialect of Chinese spoken in southeastern China; this form of Chinese is not well known outside China because few of the Hakka people have migrated

• Sinitic, Sinitic language — a group of Sino-Tibetan languages