chinese

Chinese
    adj 1: of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures;
           "Chinese food"
    2: of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on
       Taiwan or its residents or their language; "the Taiwanese
       capital is Taipeh" [syn: {Taiwanese}, {Chinese}, {Formosan}]
    n 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
    2: a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist
       China
    

Chinese \Chi"nese"\, a.
   Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China.
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   {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 {Coccid[ae]} especially {Coccus Sinensis}.
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Chinese \Chi*nese"\, n. sing. & pl.
   1. A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race
      with oblique eyelids who live principally in China.
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   2. sing. The language of China, which is monosyllabic.
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   Note: Chineses was used as a plural by the contemporaries of
         Shakespeare and Milton.
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