chinese

chinese is a 7-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective, noun sing & plural, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China.
2. noun sing & plural. A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China.
3. noun sing & plural. The language of China, which is monosyllabic.
4. noun. any 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 system
5. noun. a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China
6. adjective. of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures

   "Chinese food"

7. adjective. of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language

   "the Taiwanese capital is Taipeh"

   Synonyms: formosan, taiwanese

Synonyms

formosan, taiwanese

Words from these letters

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