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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

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
   - Taiwanese, Formosan

See also: China, Sinitic

Type of: Asian, Asiatic, Sinitic, Sinitic language

Part of: Cathay [archaic], China, Communist China, mainland China, Nationalist China, People's Republic of China, PRC, Red China, Republic of China, Taiwan

Encyclopedia: Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, Classical Chinese Chinese, Standard Chinese, Overseas Chinese, Mandarin language