chinese

Chinese has 2 syllables: chi · nese.

adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language.

noun. A native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China.

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.

Of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures.