a Sino-Tibetan language or language family, comprising a wide variety of speech forms, many mutually unintelligible, that are traditionally labeled dialects, and are written with identical characters.

a member of the people who speak Chinese, collectively representing the great majority of the inhabitants of China and Taiwan, and forming a significant population element in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and other countries of Southeast Asia.

of or pertaining to China or its inhabitants.

of or pertaining to the language Chinese or its speakers.

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- 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

SiniticSinitic language- a group of Sino-Tibetan languages

Beijing dialectMandarin ChineseMandarin dialectMandarin- the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China

Shanghai dialectWuWu dialect- a dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta

CantoneseCantonese dialectYueYue dialect- the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China

AmoyFukienFukkianeseHokkianeseMin dialectTaiwaneseMin- any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province

Hakka dialectHakka- a dialect of Chinese spoken in southeastern China by the Hakka

CathayChinaCommunist Chinamainland ChinaPeoples Republic of ChinaPRCRed China- a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world

- a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China

CathayChinaCommunist Chinamainland ChinaPeoples Republic of ChinaPRCRed China- a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world

Nationalist ChinaRepublic of ChinaTaiwanChina- a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the Communists led by Mao Zedong

AsianAsiatic- a native or inhabitant of Asia

Boxer- a member of a nationalistic Chinese secret society that led an unsuccessful rebellion in 1900 against foreign interests in China

Hakka- a member of a people of southeastern China (especially Hong Kong, Canton, and Taiwan) who migrated from the north in the 12th century

mandarin- a high public official of imperial China

- of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures; Chinese food

- of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language; the Taiwanese capital is Taipeh

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