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# chinese

«chinese» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **from China or about China** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (Chinese); noun (Chinese — the language; the Chinese — the people)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Chinese means from China or about China. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chinese/#m1)

2) Chinese is the language spoken in China; Mandarin is its main kind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chinese/#m2)

3) The Chinese are the people of China. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chinese/#m3)

### sense 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

- Giles, A History of Chinese Lit- erature, New York, 1901, p. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chinese/#x1)
- * 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chinese/#x2)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chinese/#x3)
- 15 students study Chinese. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chinese/#x4)
- The Chinese restaurant sold 40 meals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chinese/#x5)
- She learns 8 Chinese words a week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chinese/#x6)
- He bought 3 Chinese lanterns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chinese/#x7)
- We watched the dragon dance at Chinese New Year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chinese/#x8)
- Chinese is written with characters, not letters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chinese/#x9)
- My friend speaks Chinese and English. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chinese/#x10)
- They ate Chinese food with chopsticks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chinese/#x11)
- "But mamma says the Chinese have straight hair," the little boy suggested. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chinese/#x12)

### 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 the corpora

- [The guzheng is a Chinese plucked zither with strings over movable bridges, played in China for over 2,000 years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/15/)
- [There is a real Chinese martial art called Praying Mantis style, said to have been inspired by watching a mantis fight.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys/5/)
- [Chinese water dragons live beside rivers, jump into water when scared and can stay under for around 25 minutes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards/17/)
- [In the cold fast streams lives the biggest amphibian in the world, the Chinese giant salamander.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/378-china-s-mountains-golden-snub-nosed-monkeys-takins-red-crowned-cranes-and-giant-salamanders/3/)
- [It can make a noise like a crying baby, so in Chinese it is called the baby fish.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/378-china-s-mountains-golden-snub-nosed-monkeys-takins-red-crowned-cranes-and-giant-salamanders/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «chinese» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chinese/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.