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adjectiveof or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language
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nouna native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China
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nounany 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 systemtype of:
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of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures
Definition that contains chinese
- li Chinese distance measure; approximately 0.5 kilometers
- mahjong Chinese game played by 4 people with 144 tiles
- mao Chinese communist leader (1893-1976)
- tung Chinese tree bearing seeds that yield tung oil
- ginseng Chinese herb with palmately compound leaves and small greenish flowers and forked aromatic roots believed to have medicinal powers
- confucius Chinese philosopher whose ideas and sayings were collected after his death and became the basis of a philosophical doctrine known a Confucianism (circa 551-478 BC)
- oolong Chinese tea leaves that have been partially fermented before being dried
- lychee Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried
- cassia Chinese tree with aromatic bark; yields a less desirable cinnamon than Ceylon cinnamon
- alpinia officinalis Chinese perennial with pyramidal racemes of white flowers and pungent aromatic roots used medicinally and as flavoring