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# chinese

adjective (Chinese); noun (Chinese — the language; the Chinese — the people)

«chinese» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Chinese means from China or about China. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chinese/#m1)
2. Chinese is the language spoken in China; Mandarin is its main kind. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chinese/#m2)
3. The Chinese are the people of China. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chinese/#m3)

### In the lessons

maths: a word of the story: Chinese food, a Chinese class, the Chinese New Year (no clue to the operation); school: learning Chinese characters, the Chinese zodiac animals, the Great Wall of China in history; everyday life: Chinese restaurants, chopsticks, dragon dances at Chinese New Year

### Examples

- 15 students study Chinese. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chinese/#x1)
- The Chinese restaurant sold 40 meals. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chinese/#x2)
- She learns 8 Chinese words a week. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chinese/#x3)
- He bought 3 Chinese lanterns. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chinese/#x4)
- We watched the dragon dance at Chinese New Year. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chinese/#x5)
- Chinese is written with characters, not letters. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chinese/#x6)
- My friend speaks Chinese and English. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chinese/#x7)
- They ate Chinese food with chopsticks. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chinese/#x8)
- "But mamma says the Chinese have straight hair," the little boy suggested. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chinese/#x9)

### Note

No clue about the operation; it describes a thing. Always a capital C. The plural is also «Chinese»: «two Chinese students». More people speak Chinese as a first language than any other language.

## In Jewish tradition

maths: a word of the story: Chinese food, a Chinese class, the Chinese New Year (no clue to the operation); school: learning Chinese characters, the Chinese zodiac animals, the Great Wall of China in history; everyday life: Chinese restaurants, chopsticks, dragon dances at Chinese New Year

### Examples

- Giles, A History of Chinese Lit- erature, New York, 1901, p. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chinese/#x1)
- \* The Chinese Philosophers even actually said that the circle 0 and the (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chinese/#x2)
- To avoid writing too many strokes, the Chinese made one stroke to represent five units. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chinese/#x3)

### Note

No clue about the operation; it describes a thing. Always a capital C. The plural is also «Chinese»: «two Chinese students». More people speak Chinese as a first language than any other language.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «chinese» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chinese/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«chinese» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/chinese.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «chinese» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chinese/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«chinese» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/chinese.html) on Mova free.