n.
Pronunciation: ch ī - ' n ē z, - ' n ē s
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural Chinese
Date: 1606
1 a : a native or inhabitant of China b : a person of Chinese descent
2 : a group of related languages used by the people of China that are often mutually unintelligible in their spoken form but share a single system of writing and that constitute a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family especially : MANDARIN
– Chinese adjective