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Chi⋅nese
[chahy-neez, -nees] 
noun, plural -nese, adjective –noun
| 1. | the standard language of China, based on the speech of Beijing; Mandarin. |
| 2. | a group of languages of the Sino-Tibetan family, including standard Chinese and most of the other languages of China. Abbreviation: Chin., Chin |
| 3. | any of the Chinese languages, which vary among themselves to the point of mutual unintelligibility. |
| 4. | a native or descendant of a native of China. |
–adjective
| 5. | of or pertaining to China, its inhabitants, or one of their languages. |
| 6. | noting or pertaining to the partly logographic, partly phonetic script used for the writing of Chinese, Japanese, and other languages, consisting of thousands of brushstroke characters written in vertical columns from right to left. |
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| Chi·nese (chī-nēz', -nēs') adj. Of or relating to China or its peoples, languages, or cultures. n. pl. Chinese
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| Han 1 (hän) n. pl. Han or Hans A member of the principal ethnic group of China, constituting about 93 percent of the population, especially as distinguished from Manchus, Mongols, Huis, and other minority nationalities. Also called Chinese, Han Chinese. [Chinese (Mandarin) Hàn.] |
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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
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.
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