Meaning of 'chinese'

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Meaning of ‘chinese’

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chinese

Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China. Chinese paper. See India paper, under India. -- Chinese wax, a snowy-wgite, waxlike substance brought from China. It is the bleached secretion of certain insects of the family Coccidæ especially Coccus Sinensis.

A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China.

sing. The language of China, which is monosyllabic. Note: Chineses was used as a plural by the contemporaries of Shakespeare and Milton.

Source: WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University

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