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Adjective chinese has 2 senses
  1. Chinese - of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures; "Chinese food"
  2. Taiwanese, Chinese, Formosan - of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language; "the Taiwanese capital is Taipeh"
,Noun chinese has 2 senses
  1. 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
    --1 is a kind of     Sinitic, Sinitic language
    --1 has particulars:
     Mandarin, Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin dialect, Beijing dialect; Wu, Wu dialect, Shanghai dialect; Yue, Yue dialect, Cantonese, Cantonese dialect; Min, Min dialect, Fukien, Fukkianese, Hokkianese, Amoy, Taiwanese; Hakka, Hakka dialect
  2. Chinese - a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China
    --2 is a kind of     Asian, Asiatic
    --2 is a member of
     China, People's Republic of China, mainland China, Communist China, Red China, PRC; Taiwan, China, Nationalist China, Republic of China
     --2 has particulars: chink, Chinaman; Boxer; mandarin
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