nnoun.communicationany 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 systemRegion:CathayChinaCommunist ChinaPRCPeople's Republic of ChinaRed Chinamainland China
Hypernyms:Sinitic Sinitic language
Inherited Hypernyms:chinesesiniticsino-tibetannatural languagelanguagecommunicationabstractionentity
Direct Hyponyms:AmoyBeijing dialectCantoneseCantonese dialectFukienFukkianeseHakkaHakka dialectHokkianeseMandarinMandarin ChineseMandarin dialectMinMin dialectShanghai dialectTaiwaneseWuWu dialectYueYue dialect
Full Hyponyms:hakkamandarinminwuyue
nnoun.persona native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist ChinaMember Holonyms:Cathay China Communist China PRC People's Republic of China Red China mainland China China Nationalist China Republic of China Taiwan
Hypernyms:Asian Asiatic
Inherited Hypernyms:chineseasianinhabitantpersoncausal agentphysical entityentity
Inherited Hypernyms:chineseasianinhabitantpersonorganismliving thingwholeobjectphysical entityentity
Inherited Hypernyms:chineseasianperson of colorpersoncausal agentphysical entityentity
Inherited Hypernyms:chineseasianperson of colorpersonorganismliving thingwholeobjectphysical entityentity
Direct Hyponyms:BoxerChinamanHakkachinkmandarin
Full Hyponyms:boxerchinkhakkamandarin
adjadj.pertof or pertaining to China or its peoples or culturesPertainyms:China
Inherited Hypernyms:chinese
adjadj.pertof or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their languageSynset:Chinese Formosan Taiwanese
Examples:- the Taiwanese capital is Taipeh
Derivationally Related Form:Formosa
Pertainyms:Taiwan
Inherited Hypernyms:taiwanese