adj.

Of or relating to China or its peoples, languages, or cultures.

n., pl. Chinese.

1. 1. A native or inhabitant of China.
   2. A person of Chinese ancestry.
   3. See Han¹.
2. 1. The sole member of the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family, consisting of numerous languages and dialects such as Mandarin, Cantonese, Taiwanese, and Fujian.
   2. Any of the Sinitic varieties of speech spoken by the Chinese people.
   3. The official national language of China; Mandarin.

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The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: 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)

Meaning #2: a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China

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The adjective Chinese has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures
  Pertains to noun: China (meaning #3)

Meaning #2: of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language
  Synonyms: Taiwanese, Formosan

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - kinesisk
n. - kineser

Nederlands (Dutch)
Chinees

Français (French)
adj. - chinois
n. - Chinois

Deutsch (German)
n. - Chinese, Chinesisch
adj. - chinesisch

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικη γλώσσα
adj. - σινικός, κινέζικος, Κινέζος

Italiano (Italian)
cinese

Português (Portuguese)
n. - chinês (m)
adj. - chinês

Русский (Russian)
житель Китая, китайский язык, китайский

Español (Spanish)
adj. - chino, china, de China
n. - chino, china

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - kines, kinesiska språket
adj. - kinesisk

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
中国的, 中国话的, 中文, 中国话

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 中國的, 中國話的
n. - 中文, 中國話

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 중국의, 중국인의, 중국어의
n. - 중국인, 중국어

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 中国人, 中国語
adj. - 中国の, 中国人の

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) اللغه الصينيه, صيني (صفه) من الصين, صيني‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮סיני‬
n. - ‮סינית (שפה), סיני‬

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