Meaning of chinese

(adj) of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures; "Chinese food"

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

(noun) 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

a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China