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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024Chi•nese /tʃaɪˈniz, -ˈnis/USA pronunciation n., pl. -nese. - [uncountable] the standard language of China:Chinese, or Mandarin, is based on the speech of Beijing.
[uncountable] any of the other related languages spoken in China.[countable] a person born or living in China.adj. - of or relating to China.
- of or relating to the languages spoken in China.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024Chi•nese (chī nēz′, -nēs′),USA pronunciation n., pl. -nese, adj. n. - Language Varietiesthe standard language of China, based on the speech of Beijing;
Mandarin. - Language Varietiesa group of languages of the Sino-Tibetan family, including standard Chinese and most of the other languages of China. Abbr.: Chin., Chin
- Language Varietiesany of the Chinese languages, which vary among themselves to the point of mutual unintelligibility.
- Language Varietiesa native or descendant of a native of China.
adj. - Language Varietiesof or pertaining to China, its inhabitants, or one of their languages.
- Linguisticsnoting 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.
- Chinese(a) + -ese 1570–80
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: Chinese /tʃaɪˈniːz/ adj - of, relating to, or characteristic of China, its people, or their languages
n - ( pl -nese) a native or inhabitant of China or a descendant of one
- any of the languages of China belonging to the Sino-Tibetan family, sometimes regarded as dialects of one language. They share a single writing system that is not phonetic but ideographic. A phonetic system using the Roman alphabet was officially adopted by the Chinese government in 1966
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