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

Chinese means from China or about China. tree →
Chinese is the language spoken in China; Mandarin is its main kind. tree →
The Chinese are the people of China. tree →

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 →
The Chinese restaurant sold 40 meals. tree →
She learns 8 Chinese words a week. tree →
He bought 3 Chinese lanterns. tree →
We watched the dragon dance at Chinese New Year. tree →
Chinese is written with characters, not letters. tree →
My friend speaks Chinese and English. tree →
They ate Chinese food with chopsticks. tree →
"But mamma says the Chinese have straight hair," the little boy suggested. tree →

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

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 →
* 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 →
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 →

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: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
«chinese» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
Trees and pragmatics of «chinese» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
«chinese» in the Judaism dictionary on Mova free.

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