Crossword clues for chinese
chinese
- Boxes within boxes
- Beijing natives
- Barrier to protect bank, say, when all ice's melted
- Backbone shown by South-East Asian
- Shade of red
- Kind of puzzle
- Word before checkers or New Year
- Word before "checkers" or "zodiac"
- The talk of Taiwan
- Takeout cuisine choice
- Take-out option
- Pearl Buck people
- Nepalese neighbors
- Like gunpowder and the seismometer, by origin
- Like dim sum
- Lantern type
- Inventors of the compass and movable type
- Food often taken out
- Cuisine with chow mein
- Common takeout cuisine
- Boxers, by birth
- Beijing-born, say
- 463,493,000 people
- ______ Checkers
- ___ checkers (game with marbles)
- Variable shade in ravines upset lean seabird
- One-fifth of humankind
- Hong Kong residents, now
- Kind of lantern
- Like fan-tan and tangrams
- Takeout option
- Some takeout
- Takeout choice
- Something full of interesting characters?
- Like virtually all gold medalists in Olympic table tennis
- Popular takeout option
- Language that's the source of the words answered by this puzzle's starred clues
- 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)
- A native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China
- Hakka or Wu
- Taipei natives
- People in Pearl Buck's "Sons"
- Certain checkers
- Kind of checkers
- Asian revolutionary recruits Spanish woman
- More than a billion people found in machine search
- Mandarin or Cantonese
- Event now associated with elements of 10, 24, 28, 29, 3, 4, 8, 23 and four other solutions
- Eastern language
- Asian feature ends in the cretaceous age
- Houdini's act two recurrence - lethal ties loosened
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chinese \Chi"nese"\, a. Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China.
Chinese paper. See India paper, under India.
Chinese wax, a snowy-white, waxlike substance brought from China. It is the bleached secretion of certain insects of the family Coccid[ae] especially Coccus Sinensis.
Chinese \Chi*nese"\, n. sing. & pl.
A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China.
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sing. The language of China, which is monosyllabic.
Note: Chineses was used as a plural by the contemporaries of Shakespeare and Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from China + -ese. As a noun from c.1600. Chinee (n.) is a vulgar back-formation from this word on the mistaken notion that the word is a plural. As an adjective, Chinish also was used 16c. Chinese fire-drill "chaotic situation of many people rushing around futilely" is attested by 1962, U.S. military slang, perhaps with roots in World War II U.S. Marine Corps slang. The game Chinese checkers is attested from 1938.
Wiktionary
WordNet
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Chinese can refer to:
- Something of, from, or related to China
- People possessing Chinese citizenship.
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Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, or one of several Chinese ethnicities
- Zhonghua minzu (中華民族), the supra-ethnic Chinese nationality
- Han Chinese, the dominant ethnic group in China, Singapore, and Taiwan
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List of ethnic groups in China
- Ethnic minorities in China, the non-Han Chinese population in China
- Overseas Chinese, people of Chinese ancestry who live outside mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. It could also mean Chinese citizens who migrated to other countries.
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Chinese language, a language or family of languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China
- Standard Chinese, the standard form of the Chinese (Mandarin) language in mainland China, Taiwan and Singapore, and the variety most commonly taught as a foreign language
- other varieties of Chinese
- Written Chinese, the writing system of China
- Chinese cuisine, styles of cooking originating from China
- American Chinese cuisine
- Chinese Peak (California), a mountain
- Chinese Peak (Idaho), a mountain
- "Chinese Gordon", a nickname of Charles George Gordon (1833–1885), British military commander and administrator
Usage examples of "chinese".
Callao and Guayaquil to Nicaragua and Guatemala, under pretext of going for pitch and other things, and then often go from there to the port of Acapulco to lade Chinese cloth, in return for a great sum of silver which they carry, practicing many efforts and frauds.
Himalayas, the aeroplankton now drifted hundreds of kilometers thick in enormous fronts all over the world due to a jet stream knocked off course by a Chinese nuclear test.
In fact, special black bag teams have taken over Chinese airfreight planes.
Amerikan Peace Movement whose theory of justice was that the brutal Amerikan Army should move out of Southeast Asia so that the Cambodians could fertilize their fields with the bodies of Cambodians so that the Vietnamese could prey on the corpse of a decimated nation so that the Chinese could punish the Vietnamese so that the Vietnamese could drown their own Chinese in the sea.
Sunday, May 17 0052 hours Naval yards Amoy, China Four SEALS dove behind heavy wooden boxes to avoid the rounds from the two Chinese soldiers ahead.
Sunday, May 17 0353 hours Near the coast Amoy, China The Chinese paratroops above began firing automatic weapons, but they were at a terrible disadvantage.
A relic from the bad old days, when outlaw logging outfits ran wild in the country south of the Amur and east of the Ussuri, clearcutting vast areas of supposedly protected forest with no more than token interference from the paid-off authorities, shipping the lumber out to the ever-hungry Chinese and Japanese markets.
Chinese Classics in gold upon them, and the large establishment, show that the family belongs to the upper class of Anamites, and leave one quite unprepared for the reeking, festering heap of garbage below the house, the foul, fetid air, and swarming vermin of the interior, and the unwashedness of the inmates.
The Chinese Anchors had been taken from within because there was no way to direct sufficient power along the transmission lines.
The seemingly random disposition of Chinese surface ships resolved into a classic amphibious operations and antiair formation.
As the team watched, four antiair missiles sprang out from the Chinese horde and headed straight for the hapless American aircraft.
The new administration scrapped the antiballistic missile treaty and endured a mini-crisis with China over the collision of a Chinese fighter with a U.
Their skins are chocolate-tinted but their faces betray the genetic mishmash that is their ancestry - perhaps they call themselves Arapesh, Mundugumor, Tchambuli, Mafulu, in the way that he calls himself a Jew, but they have been liberally larded with chromosomes contributed by Chinese, Japanese, Europeans, Africans, everything.
Hard on their heels came Mesdames Celeste and Elizabeth, accompanied by a bevy of seamstresses bearing armsful of muslins, crapes, taffetas, organdies, hand-painted Chinese silks, and Indian silks.
Anticipating even then the loss of lower Burma, even before the Japanese had crossed the border, the Chinese formally requested Lend-Lease material to construct a road from Ledo in Assam across the mountains, forests and rivers of north Burma to tie in with the Burma Road on the Chinese side at Lungling.