Definition of CHINESE. Meaning of CHINESE. Synonyms of CHINESE

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Definition of CHINESE

Chinese
Chinese Chi"nese", a. Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China. 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.
Chinese
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. 2. sing. The language of China, which is monosyllabic. Note: Chineses was used as a plural by the contemporaries of Shakespeare and Milton.

Meaning of CHINESE from wikipedia

- Look up Chinese in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Chinese may refer to: Something related to China Chinese people, people identified with China, through...
- Republic of China" (simplified Chinese: 中华人民共和国; traditional Chinese: 中華人民共和國; pinyin: Zhōnghuá rénmín gònghéguó). The shorter form is "China" (中国; 中國;...
- Chinese (simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ; lit. 'Han language' or 中文; Zhōngwén; 'Chinese writing') is a group of languages...
- other symbols. Chinese characters are logographs used to write the Chinese languages and others from regions historically influenced by Chinese culture. Of...
- The Chinese zodiac is a traditional classification scheme based on the Chinese calendar that ****igns an animal and its reputed attributes to each year...
- the timing of Chinese New Year with traditions like the twelve animals of the Chinese Zodiac still widely observed. The traditional Chinese calendar uses...
- China is sometimes identified with the Xia dynasty (3rd millennium BC) of traditional Chinese historiography. The earliest surviving written Chinese dates...
- a new year on the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar. It is one of the most important holidays in Chinese culture, and has been added to the Intangible...
- The Han Chinese, alternatively the Han people or simply the Chinese, are an East Asian ethnic group native to Greater China. With a global po****tion...
- Mandarin (/ˈmændərɪn/ MAN-dər-in; simplified Chinese: 官话; traditional Chinese: 官話; pinyin: Guānhuà; lit. 'officials' speech') is the largest branch of...