chinese

1. 1.

   of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures

   “Chinese food”
2. 2.

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

   “the Taiwanese capital is Taipeh”

   SynonymsTaiwaneseFormosan

Other forms of chinese

plural

chineses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about chinese

What does chinese mean?

chinese means "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". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chinese?

chinese has 2 syllables: chi-nese. The stress falls on "nese". In IPA it is /tʃaɪˈniz/.

What is another word for chinese?

Close synonyms include Taiwanese, Formosan. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chinese a common word?

chinese is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with chinese?

9 words rhyme with chinese. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.