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From China +‎ -ese

Noun

Wikipedia has an article on: Chinese

Wikipedia Chinese (countable and uncountable; plural Chinese)

  1. (uncountable) The class of Sino-Tibetan dialects including Mandarin, Wu, Cantonese, Min Nan and others. Abbreviation: Chin or Chin.
  2. (uncountable) The logographic writing system shared by this language family.
    • Hong Kong uses traditional Chinese.
  3. (uncountable) Mandarin, the main language spoken in China.
  4. (used as a plural and always preceded by the) The people of China.
    • The Chinese have an incredible history.
  5. All people of Chinese descent or self-identity
    • The Chinese are present in all parts of the world.
  6. (countable) A person born in China.
    • The place was empty till two Chinese walked in.
  7. (UK, countable, informal) A Chinese meal.
    • We're going out tonight for a Chinese.
  8. (North America, uncountable, informal) Chinese food.
    • Do you care for Chinese tonight?

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Derived terms

terms derived from Chinese
  • American-born Chinese
  • American Chinese
  • Archaic Chinese
  • British-born Chinese
  • British Chinese
  • Burmese Chinese
  • Chinee
  • Chinese abacus
  • Chinese alligator
  • Chinese American
  • Chinese angelica, Chinese angelica tree
  • Chinese anise
  • Chinese arborvitae
  • Chinese Army technique
  • Chinese artichoke
  • Chinese auction
  • Chinese auricular therapy
  • Chinese Australian
  • Chinese-balance
  • Chinese bamboo partridge
  • Chinese bamboo torture
  • Chinese banyan
  • Chinese barbecue sauce
  • Chinese BASIC
  • Chinese bayberry
  • Chinese bellflower
  • Chinese bird spider
  • Chinese black mushroom
  • Chinese blackjack
  • Chinese block
  • Chinese blue
  • Chinese boxes
  • Chinese Brazilian
  • Chinese British
  • Chinese Briton
  • Chinese broccoli
  • Chinese brown sauce
  • Chinese burn
  • Chinese cabbage
  • Chinese calendar
  • Chinese Cambodian
  • Chinese Canadian
  • Chinese canonical texts
  • Chinese-capstan
  • Chinese catfish
  • Chinese Cayman Islander
  • Chinese cedar
  • Chinese celery
  • Chinese celery cabbage
  • Chinese character
  • Chinese character encoding
  • Chinese chard
  • Chinese checkers, Chinese chequers
  • Chinese cherry
  • Chinese chess
  • Chinese chestnut
  • Chinese chicken salad
  • Chinese chikwando
  • Chinese Chippendale
  • Chinese chives
  • Chinese cinnamon
  • Chinese classic texts
  • Chinese copy
  • Chinese cork oak
  • Chinese crab
  • Chinese crescent
  • Chinese Crested
  • Chinese Crested Dog
  • Chinese Crested Tern
  • Chinese crocodile lizard
  • Chinese Cuban
  • Chinese cucumber
  • Chinese cut
  • Chinese date
  • Chinese deity
  • Chinese desert cat
  • Chinese dormouse
  • Chinese dragon
  • Chinese egg noodles
  • Chinese eggplant
  • Chinese egret
  • Chinese eight-ball
  • Chinese elm
  • Chinese Empire
  • Chinese energetic technique
  • Chinese English pidgin
  • Chinese evergreen
  • Chinese evergreen magnolia
  • Chinese exclusion
  • Chinese export porcelain
  • Chinese-eyed
  • Chinese fan palm
  • Chinese farmer
  • Chinese federalism
  • Chinese figwort
  • Chinese Filipino
  • Chinese finger cuffs, Chinese finger prison, Chinese finger trap
  • Chinese fire
  • Chinese fire belly newt
  • Chinese fire drill
  • Chinese firepot
  • Chinese fishing nets
  • Chinese five spice, Chinese five-spice powder
  • Chinese flycatcher
  • Chinese food
  • Chinese food therapy
  • Chinese forget-me-not
  • Chinese fried rice
  • Chinese frog
  • Chinese fuseki
  • Chinese gall
  • Chinese garden
  • Chinese gelatin, Chinese gelatine
  • Chinese ginger
  • Chinese glue
  • Chinese gong
  • Chinese goose
  • Chinese gooseberry
  • Chinese goshawk
  • Chinese grapefruit
  • Chinese grass
  • Chinese gybe
  • Chinese hackberry
  • Chinese hamster
  • Chinese hand analysis
  • Chinese handball
  • Chinese handcuffs
  • Chinese head tax
  • Chinese hedge
  • Chinese herbal medicine
  • Chinese herb tea
  • Chinese hibiscus
  • Chinese holly
  • Chinese honey bee
  • Chinese house church
  • Chinese hypothesis
  • Chinese indigo
  • Chinese Indonesian
  • Chinese ink
  • Chinese isinglass
  • Chinese jujube
  • Chinese jump rope
  • Chinese juniper
  • Chinese kale
  • Chinese key
  • Chinese Korean
  • Chinese lacquer
  • Chinese lacquer tree
  • Chinese language
  • Chinese lantern
  • Chinese lantern plant
  • Chinese laundry
  • Chinese layering
  • Chinese leaf
  • Chinese leaf warbler
  • Chinese leaves
  • Chinese lettuce
  • Chinese linking rings
  • Chinese little bittern
  • Chinese liver fluke
  • Chinese long bean
  • Chinese lug
  • Chinese magnolia
  • Chinese mantis
  • Chinese marble
  • Chinese matrimony vine
  • Chinese mauritian
  • Chinese melon
  • Chinese merganser
  • Chinese millet
  • Chinese mitten crab
  • Chinese molasses
  • Chinese mountain cat
  • Chinese mulberry
  • Chinese mushroom
  • Chinese mustard
  • Chinese mustard cabbage
  • Chinese National Standard
  • Chinese New Year
  • Chinese noodles
  • Chinese number gesture
  • Chinese numeral
  • Chinese okra
  • Chinese okra squash
  • Chinese opening
  • Chinese paddlefish
  • Chinese painted quail
  • Chinese paper
  • Chinese parasol, Chinese parasol tree
  • Chinese parsley
  • Chinese pavilion
  • Chinese pear
  • Chinese pea tree
  • Chinese peony
  • Chinese pepper
  • Chinese Peruvian
  • Chinese pheasant
  • Chinese phoenix
  • Chinese Pidgin English
  • Chinese pistache
  • Chinese pitcher-plant
  • Chinese plum
  • Chinese poker
  • Chinese pond heron
  • Chinese portrait
  • Chinese postman problem
  • Chinese potato
  • Chinese primrose
  • Chinese privet
  • Chinese Proficiency Test
  • Chinese Puerto Rican
  • Chinese puzzle
  • Chinese quince
  • Chinese radish
  • Chinese red
  • Chinese red head, Chinese red-headed centipede
  • Chinese red date
  • Chinese red pine
  • Chinese red vinegar
  • Chinese remainder theorem
  • Chinese restaurant process
  • Chinese restaurant syndrome
  • Chinese Revolution
  • Chinese rhubarb
  • Chinese rice wine
  • Chinese rings
  • Chinese Rites controversy
  • Chinese river crab
  • Chinese river dolphin
  • Chinese room argument
  • Chinese rose
  • Chinese sacred lily
  • Chinese sausage
  • Chinese scholar's rocks
  • Chinese scholar tree
  • Chinese seal
  • Chinese senna
  • Chinese Shan
  • Chinese Shar-Pei, Chinese shar-pei
  • Chinese silk plant
  • Chinese silver
  • Chinese silver panda
  • Chinese slipper
  • Chinese snowball
  • Chinese soup spoon
  • Chinese Soviet Republic
  • Chinese spinach
  • Chinese splits
  • Chinese spotbill
  • Chinese squeeze
  • Chinese steamed bun
  • Chinese steamed eggs
  • Chinese strawberry tree
  • Chinese striped hamster
  • Chinese sturgeon
  • Chinese style name
  • Chinese sugarcane
  • Chinese swordfish
  • Chinese tag
  • Chinese Taipei
  • Chinese takeaway, Chinese take-away, Chinese take-out
  • Chinese tallow tree
  • Chinese temple block
  • Chinese tickle torture
  • Chinese tobacco
  • Chinese toe cuffs
  • Chinese tour
  • Chinese truffle
  • Chinese trumpet creeper
  • Chinese trumpet vine
  • Chinese tulip tree
  • Chinese tumbler
  • Chinese Turkestan
  • Chinese turnip
  • Chinese Valentine's Day
  • Chinese vampire
  • Chinese varnish
  • Chinese vermilion
  • Chinese Vietnamese
  • Chinese wall, Chinese walls
  • Chinese wall doctrine
  • Chinese water chestnut
  • Chinese water deer
  • Chinese water dragon
  • Chinese water-lily
  • Chinese watermelon
  • Chinese water therapy
  • Chinese water torture
  • Chinese wax
  • Chinese wheat noodles
  • Chinese wheel
  • Chinese whispers
  • Chinese white
  • Chinese white cabbage
  • Chinese white dolphin
  • Chinese white pear
  • Chinese white pine
  • Chinese wildman
  • Chinese willow
  • Chinese windlass
  • Chinese windmill palm
  • Chinese winter squash
  • Chinese wistaria, Chinese wisteria
  • Chinese wolfberry
  • Chinese wood block
  • Chinese wood oil
  • Chinese yam
  • Chinese yellow
  • Chinese yo-yo
  • Classical Chinese
  • Cochinchinese
  • C-pop
  • General Chinese
  • hacked by Chinese
  • Han Chinese
  • Indo-Chinese
  • Korean Chinese
  • Literary Chinese
  • Malaysian Chinese
  • Mandarin Chinese
  • Middle Chinese
  • Old Chinese
  • overseas Chinese
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Singaporean Chinese
  • South African Chinese
  • Standard Written Chinese
  • Straits Chinese
  • Thai Chinese
  • Vernacular Chinese
  • Vietnamese Chinese

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Adjective

Chinese (not comparable)

  1. Of China, its languages or people
  2. Unexpected, as used in the phrases Chinese whispers, Chinese burn, Chinese auction.

Synonyms

Translations

relating to China
  • Afrikaans: sjinese
  • American Sign Language: 1@ContraShoulder-FingerBack 1@IpsiShoulder-FingerBack 1@Abdomen-FingerBack
  • Arabic: صيني ar(ar) (Síniy)
  • Armenian: չինական hy(hy) (činakan)
  • Belarusian: кітайскі be(be) (kitájski)
  • Bosnian: kineski m sg/pl
  • Breton: sinaat
  • Bulgarian: китайски bg(bg) (kitájski)
  • Chinese:
    Cantonese: 中國/中国 (Jūnggwok); 中國嘅/中国嘅 (Jūnggwok ge); 中國的/中国的 (Jūnggwok dīk) written only; 中華/中华 (Jūngwà)
    Mandarin: 中國 cmn(cmn), 中国 cmn(cmn) (Zhōngguó), 中國的 cmn(cmn), 中国的 cmn(cmn) (Zhōngguó de), 中華 cmn(cmn), 中华 cmn(cmn) (Zhōnghuá), (as a component) 中- cmn(cmn) (Zhōng-), (language, ethnicity) 漢 cmn(cmn), 汉 cmn(cmn) (Hàn-), 華 cmn(cmn), 华 cmn(cmn) (Huá)
  • Czech: čínský cs(cs)
  • Danish: kinesisk da(da)
  • Dutch: Chinees nl(nl), Chinese nl(nl)
  • Esperanto: ĉina eo(eo)
  • Filipino: Tsina
  • Finnish: kiinalainen fi(fi)
  • French: chinois fr(fr) m., chinoise fr(fr) f.
  • German: chinesisch de(de)
  • Greek: σινικός (sinikós) m. (f. σινική (sinikí), n. σινικό (sinikó)), κινέζικος (kinézikos) m. (f. κινέζικη (kinéziki), n. κινέζικο (kinéziko))
  • Hindi: चीनी hi(hi) (cīnī)
  • Hungarian: kínai hu(hu)
  • Icelandic: kínverskur m., kínversk f., kínverskt n., kínverskir pl., kínverskar f.pl., kínversk n.pl.
  • Italian: cinese it(it) m. and f.
  • Japanese: 中国 ja(ja) (ちゅうごく, Chūgoku), 中国の ja(ja) (ちゅうごくの, Chūgoku-no), 中華 ja(ja) (ちゅうか, Chūka), (as a prefix) 中- ja(ja) (ちゅう-, Chū-)
  • Korean: 중국 ko(ko) (Jungguk) (中國 ko(ko)), (as a prefix) 중- ko(ko) (Jung-) (中- ko(ko))
  • Latin: Sinica
  • Lithuanian: kiniškas lt(lt) m., kiniška lt(lt) f.
  • Macedonian: кинески mk(mk) (kinéski)
  • Persian: چینی fa(fa) (čini)
  • Polish: chiński pl(pl) m., chińska pl(pl) f., chińskie pl(pl) n.
  • Portuguese: chinês m., chinesa f., sino m.
  • Romanian: chinezesc m., chinezească f., chinezeşti pl.
  • Russian: китайский ru(ru) (kitájskij) m., (also, of ethnicity) ханьский ru(ru) (xán'skij)
  • Scottish Gaelic: Sìonach gd(gd)
  • Serbian:
    • Cyrillic: кинески m sg/pl
    • Roman: kineski m sg/pl
  • Slovene: kitajski m., kitajska f., kitajsko n.
  • Spanish: chino es(es) m., china es(es) f.
  • Swedish: kinesisk sv(sv)
  • Thai: จีน th(th) (jiin)
  • Turkish: Çin tr(tr)
  • Ukrainian: китайський uk(uk) (kytájs'kyj)
  • Urdu: چینی ur(ur) (cīnī)
  • Vietnamese: Trung Quốc vi(vi) (中國 vi(vi)), Tàu vi(vi), Trung vi(vi) (中 vi(vi)), Hán vi(vi) (漢 vi(vi)), Hoa vi(vi) (華 vi(vi))

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Noun

Chinese f. (plural Chinesen)

  1. female person from China

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German

Noun

Chinese m. (genitive Chinesen, plural Chinesen)

  1. male person from China

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