Chinese

Etymology
From

Noun

 * 1)  The class of Sino-Tibetan dialects including Mandarin, Wu, Cantonese, Min Nan and others. Abbreviation: Chin or Chin.
 * 2)  The logographic writing system shared by this language family.
 * Hong Kong uses traditional Chinese.
 * 1)  Mandarin, the main language spoken in China.
 * 2)  The people of China.
 * The Chinese have an incredible history.
 * 1) All people of Chinese descent or self-identity
 * The Chinese are present in all parts of the world.
 * 1)  A person born in China.
 * The place was empty till two Chinese walked in.
 * 1)  A Chinese meal.
 * We're going out tonight for a Chinese.
 * 1)  Chinese food.
 * Do you care for Chinese tonight?

Synonyms

 * Chinese language
 * Chinese writing system
 * Mandarin, Mandarin Chinese
 * Chinese people
 * Chinaman (of a man only; now considered offensive), Chinee (archaic, informal), chink (person or people who comes from China or its descent; ethinic slur; derogatory)
 * Chinese meal
 * Chinese food

Derived terms

 * 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

Related terms

 * China
 * Chinean, Chinian
 * Chinish
 * Sineish, Sinish
 * chinesery
 * Chinesian

Translations

 * Afrikaans: Sjinees
 * Albanian: Kineze
 * American Sign Language: 1@Shoulder-FingerBack 1@Shoulder-FingerBack 1@Abdomen-FingerBack
 * Arabic:, الصينية,
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri: чин (čin)
 * Basque: txinera
 * Belarusian: кітайская
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: sinaeg
 * Bulgarian: китайски
 * Burmese: တရုတ်စကား
 * Catalan: xinès, xinesa
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 中文 (jūngm à n); 普通话 (póutūngwá); 國語/国语 (gwoky ú ); 漢語/汉语 (Hony ú ); 華語/华语 (W à y ú )
 * Mandarin:, , , , , ,
 * Min Nan: Hàn-gí
 * Cornish: Chenek
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: Kinesiskt
 * Filipino: Intsik, Tsino
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: ચીની (chīnī)
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: kínverska
 * Indonesian: bahasa China, bahasa Cina, bahasa Mandarin, China, Cina
 * Irish: Sínis
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: қытай тілі, қытай
 * Khmer: ភាសាចិន
 * Korean:, 중국말
 * Kurdish: Çînî,
 * Lao: ພາສາຈີນ


 * Latin: sinesis, lingua sinica
 * Latvian: ķīniešu, ķīniešu valoda
 * Limburgish: Sjineesj‎
 * Lithuanian: kinų, kinų kalba
 * Macedonian: кинески (kínеski)
 * Malay: bahasa Cina, Cina
 * Maltese: Ċiniż
 * Manchu: nikan i gisun
 * Marathi: चीनी भाषा (chīnī bhāsā)
 * Moksha: Китаень (Kitaen’)
 * Mongolian: хятад хэл
 * Navajo:
 * Nepali:
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: chinès
 * Persian: چینی, زبان چینی
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, colloq,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman: kineski
 * Sinhalese: චීන
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: Kichina (noun 7)
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: Intsík, Tsino
 * Tajik: чинӣ, забони чинӣ
 * Tamil: சீனம் (chīnam)
 * Tatar: Кытай (Kıtay)
 * Thai: ภาษาจีน
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: hytaý dili
 * Ukrainian: китайська
 * Urdu:
 * Vietnamese: tiếng Trung Quốc, tiếng Hoa, tiếng Hán, tiếng Tàu, Hán ngữ
 * Walloon: Chinwès
 * Welsh: Tsieineeg, Tseineg
 * West Frisian: Sineesk
 * Yiddish: כינעזיש
 * Zulu: Ishayina


 * American Sign Language: 1@Shoulder-FingerBack 1@Shoulder-FingerBack 1@Abdomen-FingerBack
 * Arabic: (Siníyya)
 * Armenian:
 * Burmese: တရုတ်စာ
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Filipino: Intsik, Tsino
 * Finnish: kiina


 * Italian: cinese, ideogrammi cinesi
 * Norwegian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: Kichina
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: Intsík, Tsino
 * Turkish: Çince, Çin alfabesi
 * Vietnamese: chữ Trung Quốc, chữ Hán, chữ Tàu, Hán tự


 * American Sign Language: 1@Shoulder-FingerBack 1@Shoulder-FingerBack 1@Abdomen-FingerBack
 * Arabic: (Siníyya),  (al-lúgha al-Siníyya al-shamaalíyya)  (Northern Chinese language),  (mandariniya)
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:,  (Putonghua),  ,  (Guoyu),  , , , , 北方話, 北方话
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Filipino: Intsik, Tsino
 * Finnish: kiina, mandariinikiina
 * Hindi: मेंडरिन भाषा
 * Italian: ,


 * Japanese: 北京官話, 北京官話,
 * Korean: 중국보통어, 북경어, 보통화 (普通語)
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish: mandarín, dialecto mandarín
 * Swahili: Kimandarini
 * Swedish: mandarin, mandarinkinesiska
 * Tagalog: Intsík, Tsino
 * Thai:
 * Urdu:
 * Vietnamese: Quan thoại, tiếng Bắc Kinh


 * American Sign Language: 1@Shoulder-FingerBack 1@Shoulder-FingerBack 1@Abdomen-FingerBack
 * Arabic:, , صينيون, صينيات
 * Burmese: တရုတ်လူမျိုး
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 中國人/中国人 (Jūnggwok y à n); 華人/华人 (W à y à n); 漢人/汉人 (Hon y à n); 唐人 (T ò ng y à n)
 * Mandarin:, ;  , , , , , ,
 * Min Nan: Tiong-kok-lâng
 * Croatian: kinezi
 * Czech:
 * Danish: kinesere
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: hiinlased
 * Filipino: Intsik, Tsino
 * Finnish: kiinalaiset
 * French: les Chinois
 * German: die Chinesen
 * Greek: Κινέζοι
 * Hebrew: סיני,
 * Hindi:


 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: i cinesi
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Lithuanian: kinas or kinietis, kinė or kinietė
 * Macedonian: Кинези
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian: kinesere
 * Polish: Chińczycy
 * Portuguese: os chineses
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, , китайцы, хань
 * Scottish Gaelic: na
 * Slovene: Kitajci
 * Spanish: los chinos
 * Swahili: Mchina
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: Intsík, Tsino
 * Thai: คนจีน
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu:
 * Vietnamese: người Trung Quốc, người Tàu


 * Finnish: kiinalaiset


 * Swahili: Mchina


 * American Sign Language: 1@Shoulder-FingerBack 1@Shoulder-FingerBack 1@Abdomen-FingerBack
 * Arabic: ,
 * Armenian: չինացի (činac'i)
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: hiinlane, hiinlanna
 * Filipino: Intsik, Tsino
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: סיני,
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian:, Кинеска
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, , китайцы
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene: Kitajec, Kitajka
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: Mchina
 * Swedish: kines (male), kinesiska (female)
 * Tagalog: Intsík, Tsino
 * Thai: คนจีน
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu:
 * Vietnamese: người Trung Quốc, người Tàu


 * Finnish: kiinalainen


 * American Sign Language: 1@Shoulder-FingerBack 1@Shoulder-FingerBack 1@Abdomen-FingerBack
 * Arabic:
 * Burmese: တရုတ်အစာ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 中國菜, 中国菜,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: hiina toit
 * Finnish: kiinalainen
 * Greek: κινέζικο
 * Italian: cibo cinese


 * Japanese: 中華料理
 * Korean: 중국식 (中國食)
 * Lithuanian: kinų maistas
 * Norwegian: kinamat kinesisk
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: comida chinesa
 * Russian: китайская кухня
 * Spanish: comida china
 * Swahili: chakula cha kichina
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: Çin yemeği
 * Vietnamese: đồ (ăn) Tàu

Original note: "Note: The translations for the language apply for the the people for all languages above except the following:" ''These translations were given for the sense "the people". It is insufficient to say "see above" because this makes the tables dependent on one another and relies on both being kept up to date and in synch. Further, many of these translations give singular and plural forms or singular forms alone, when they should probably give plural forms only.''
 * }: kinez, kineskinja
 * : Sinaad, Sinaiz
 * : китаец (kitaets), китайка (kitajka)
 * : orang cina


 * : Sinesis
 * : (nikan)
 * : (chini)
 * }:
 * Cyrillic: кинез, кинескиња
 * Roman: kinez, kineskinja

Adjective

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

Synonyms

 * Sinic, Sino- (prefix)

Translations

 * Afrikaans: sjinese
 * American Sign Language:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: չինական
 * Belarusian: кітайскі
 * Bosnian: kineski m sg/pl
 * Breton: sinaat
 * Bulgarian: китайски
 * Burmese: တရုတ်
 * 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 (Jūngw à )
 * Mandarin:, , , , , , ,   ,  ,  ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Filipino: Tsina
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek: σινικός (sinikós) ( σινική (sinikí),  σινικό (sinikó)), κινέζικος (kinézikos)  ( κινέζικη (kinéziki),  κινέζικο (kinéziko))
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: kínverskur, kínversk, kínverskt, kínverskir, kínverskar, kínversk


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , ,
 * Korean: ,
 * Latin: Sinica
 * Lithuanian: ,
 * Macedonian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese: chinês, chinesa , sino
 * Romanian: chinezesc, chinezească , chinezeşti
 * Russian:, ханьский
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: кинески m sg/pl
 * Roman: kineski m sg/pl
 * Slovene: kitajski, kitajska , kitajsko
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: Kichina
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: чинӣ
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: китайський
 * Urdu:
 * Vietnamese:, Tàu, Trung ,   ,  Hoa

Noun

 * 1) female person from China

Related terms

 * China (China)
 * Chinees (person from China, male or female)
 * Chinees (the Chinese language)

Anagrams

 * Chinees

Noun

 * 1) male person from China

Related terms

 * Chinesin (female person from China)

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