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Definition of Chinese noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

Chinese

noun

NAmE//ˌtʃaɪˈniz//

, NAmE//ˌtʃaɪˈnis//

(pl. Chi‧nese)

1[countable] a person from China, or whose family was originally from China

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2[uncountable] the language of China

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