chinese

Reading level: medium

Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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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
noun a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China
adjective of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures

The second Chinese attendant had reappeared. — The Big Four, Agatha Christie
The Chinese and Japanese are called Mongolians. — Where We Live: A Home Geography, Emilie Van Beil Jacobs
Many of the Chinese are well-to-do merchants. — Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania, Jewett C. (Jewett Castello) Gilson

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