Chinese
- adjective
- /ˈtʃaɪniːz/
- Do you happen to like Chinese food?
- Chinese government
- Chinese immigrants
- Chinese officials
This is the first Chinese fast food in America.
- This is the first Chinese fast food in America.
- What he did see were hundreds of Chinese paintings of tigers.
- We do have our Chinese way of managing a crisis.
- So we'll be doing Ayurvedic, traditional Chinese acupuncture.
- It was a novel about a Chinese American future cyber war.
- That the entire Chinese Politburo, the whole Chinese PLA doesn't operate that way.
Examples
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You know, he educated the world on Chinese culture, martial arts, right?
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Unfortunately, Trump put tariffs on Chinese imports of solar panels.
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This is the first Chinese fast food in America.
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I take this walk down to the corner to the Chinese restaurant.
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The artist stated that he had forgotten how to write his own name in Chinese characters.
Academic text (2011) -
This is a very famous Chinese game, Mahjong.
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We're sitting at a booth in a Chinese restaurant in Burnie.
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The place wasn't traditionally Chinese, of course, but nor was it truly American.
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By my calculations, the Chinese border is 2,058 kilometers away.
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Do you happen to like Chinese food?
Synonyms
Relating to China or Chinese culture
About the Chinese people, their language, and their culture
In Chinese style used in art or decoration
Idioms
- Offensive
A person who has many chins because they gained weight
Compounds
A board game on a star with six points where players move marbles to the opposite point
The main form of Chinese spoken in Beijing and used as China's official language
A 1911 revolution that ended the Qing dynasty and created the Republic of China
A fast-growing tree from Asia with small leaves often planted for shade or as a garden tree
- Jargon
A rule to keep people in different teams from sharing secret information to avoid conflicts of interest
A vegetable with long pale green leaves and thick white stalks used in Asian cooking
A group of symptoms like headache and tingling after eating food with MSG
- Offensive
A game where people whisper a message along a line and it often changes
A dish of cooked rice quickly fried with egg, green onions and meat or shrimp
A small tree from China and Japan that makes a poisonous sap used to make a hard shiny coating
A plant with bright orange, papery, lantern-shaped coverings around its small fruit
- Specialized
A small alligator that lives in China's Yangtze valley and has toes without webbing
A mushroom from East Asia used in cooking with a dark cap and a tough, inedible stem
A dark, salty sauce made with soy sauce and broth and used on Chinese dishes
A plant with large green or patterned leaves that grows well in low light indoors
- Specialized
A large freshwater fish from the Yangtze River with a long paddle-shaped snout
- Specialized
A tree from Asia with large maple-like leaves, yellow-green flower clusters, and seed pods that look like leaves
A shrub from northern China with dark green shiny leaves and pale yellow flowers grown in gardens
A small flowering plant from China that people grow in gardens for its bright flowers
An evergreen shrub or small tree with pointed leaves and white flowers often grown in gardens
A tree that loses its leaves and has dark green leaf groups and creamy-white fragrant flowers
A tree from China and Japan that loses its leaves and has dark green leaves and fragrant white flower clusters
A tall plant from tropical Asia that people grow for strong fiber like flax from its woody stems
A slow, very annoying experience that makes you feel anxious, like drops falling again and again
- Specialized
A strong white paint used to make colours lighter in paintings and drawings
A leafy vegetable with white stalks and dark green leaves used in Asian cooking
- Specialized
A yellow liquid from tung tree seeds that dries quickly and protects wood
A California plant with white and pale purple flowers that grow in rings around the stem like a small tower
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Chinese comes from the name China, which itself comes from Qin, a powerful ruling family long ago whose name was said like 'Chin'. So Chinese means 'from China' and is used for things, people, or the language of that country.