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...
- China (Chinese: 中国; pinyin: Zhōngguó), officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's second-most-populous...
- 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...
- China is sometimes identified with the Xia dynasty (3rd millennium BCE) of traditional Chinese historiography. The earliest surviving written Chinese...
- subtypes of the Chinese calendar and horology, which over a millennium plus history has produced many variations. The topic of the Chinese calendar includes...
- large-scale Han Chinese immigration began under a Dutch colony and continued under the Kingdom of Tungning, the first predominantly Han Chinese state in Taiwanese...
- Chinese lantern may refer to: A collapsible paper lantern or sky lantern in bright colours, primarily red but also other colours, used for decorative...
- Chinese New Year is the festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar. In Chinese, the festival is...
- Chinese characters are logograms used to write the Chinese languages and several other languages historically influenced by Chinese culture. Chinese characters...
- The Chinese zodiac is a traditional classification scheme based on the Chinese calendar that ****igns an animal and its reputed attributes to each year...