chinese

Adjective

• of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language
  • the Taiwanese capital is Taipeh
    

• of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures
  • Chinese food
    

Noun

• a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China

• 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

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Taiwanese , Chinese , Formosan