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(Oyunlar) Kulaktan kulağa oyunu

expert on china and chinese culture

(Oyunlar) (Çoğul isim) Kulaktan kulağa oyunu

Çin ve Çin kültürü uzmanı

han chinese

Han Ulusu ya da Han Çinli (Basitleştirilmiş Çince: 汉族, Klasik Çince: 漢族, pinyin: hànzú) Çin'de yaşayan en büyük etnik gruptur. Çin nüfusunun %92'sini ve dünya nüfusunun yaklaşık %19'ünü oluştururlar. Türkçe'de Çinli kelimesi Han Ulusuna eş anlamlı olarak kullanılmaktadır. Han Ulusu adını M.o. 206 – M.S. 220 yılları arasında hüküm sürmüş Han Hanedanlığı'ndan alır. Han Hanedanlığı, Çin'i tek bir hükümdar altında birleştiren kısa süreli Qin Hanedanlığı'nin ardından (M.o.221 - M.o.206) egemenliği ele geçirmiş, Çin kültürü üzerinde derin etkiler bırakmıştır. Bugün Çin'de yaşayan pek çok insan da Han döneminde kurulan kültürel ve siyasal birliğin mirasçısı olarak kendini Han insanı (Hànrén) olarak adlandırmaktadır

junishi, chinese zodiac adopted in japan

junishi, çin japan kabul zodyak

{i} (çoğ. Chi.nese) Çinli

{s} Çin, Çin'e özgü

şeytan feneri [(Botanik) ]

{s} çin

Sen Çinli misin yoksa Japon musun? - Are you Chinese or Japanese?

Çin restoranında Pekin ördeği yedik. - We ate Peking duck in the Chinese restaurant.

{s} çin ile ilgili

(Eğitim) çin akademisi

chinese american families

amerikalı çinli aileler

chinese americans

amerikalı çinliler

chinese architecture

çin mimarisi

chinese ball button

(Tekstil) çin top düğmesi

chinese binary code

(Bilgisayar,Teknik) kolon ikili kod

chinese blue

çin mavisi

chinese company

(Ticaret) çin şirketi

chinese essays

çin denemeleri

chinese herbal drugs

(Tıp) çin bitkisel ilaçlar

chinese made (products)

çin malı ürünler

chinese mythology

çin mitolojisi

chinese oak silk

(Tekstil) tusah ipeği

chinese red

(Sanat) çin kırmızısı

chinese remainder theorem

(Matematik) çinli kalan teoremi

chinese restaurant syndrome

(Tıp) çin restoranı sendromu

chinese room

(Pisikoloji, Ruhbilim) Çince odası

chinese silver

çin gümüşü

chinese spinach

(Botanik, Bitkibilim) yabani kadife çiçeği

i'd like to go to a chinese restaurant

çin restoranına gitmek istiyorum

indo chinese

hindiçinili

is there a chinese restaurant nearby

yakınlarda çin restoranı var mı

it's all chinese to me

ben anlamaz

primary chinese

(Bilgisayar) birincil çince

simple chinese

(Bilgisayar) temel çince

simplified chinese

Modern Çince

traditional chinese

Klasik Çince

İngilizce - İngilizce

(a) chinese teriminin İngilizce İngilizce sözlükte anlamı

All people of Chinese descent or self-identity

The Chinese are present in all parts of the world.

Chinese food

Do you care for Chinese tonight?.

Tom said that he didn't think Mary knew how to cook Chinese food. - Tom said he didn't think Mary knew how to cook Chinese food.

Tom said that he wanted to eat Chinese food. - Tom said he wanted to eat Chinese food.

Unexpected, as used in the phrases Chinese whispers, Chinese burn, Chinese auction

The class of Sino-Tibetan dialects including Mandarin, Wu, Cantonese, Min Nan and others. Abbreviation: Chin or Chin

A person born in China

The place was empty till two Chinese walked in.

A Chinese meal

We're going out tonight for a Chinese.

Of China, its languages or people

Mandarin, the main language spoken in China

The people of China

The Chinese have an incredible history.

The logographic writing system shared by this language family

Hong Kong uses traditional Chinese.

Chinese Crested Dog

A toy dog that resembles a long-snouted Chihuahua with tufts of hair about the head and ears, tail and feet

Chinese New Year

An annual Chinese holiday, marking the beginning of the lunar year

Chinese New Years

plural form of Chinese New Year

Chinese Taipei

The name under which the Republic of China, commonly known as Taiwan, participates in most international organisations

Chinese Wall

A barrier of silence and secrecy established within an organization in order to cope with confidentiality requirements

The enthusiasm for handy phrases of verbal shorthand is understandable. Occasionally, however, lawyers and judges use a term which is singularly inappropriate. Chinese Wall is one such piece of legal flotsam which should be emphatically abandoned. The term has an ethnic focus which many would consider a subtle form of linguistic discrimination. Certainly, the continued use of the term would be insensitive to the ethnic identity of the many persons of Chinese descent.

Chinese Walls

plural form of Chinese Wall

Chinese astrology

The astrology system which was developed in China and is based on yin and yang, twelve signs represented by animals, the lunisolare calendar and five planets

Chinese boxes

A set of boxes, of different sizes, each fitting inside the next larger one

Chinese boxes

Something that resembles a set of Chinese boxes, especially in complexity

Chinese burn

A prank where you grab the victim's forearm in two hands, and twist the skin in opposite directions

Chinese burns

plural form of Chinese burn

Any East Asian leafy vegetable related to the Western cabbage, especially varieties of Brassica rapa

Chinese cabbages

plural form of Chinese cabbage

Chinese character

Any character used in the written form of several languages of China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam

Chinese characters

plural form of Chinese character

Chinese checkers

A board game played by two to six people, in which players aim to move their own pieces to the corner opposite their starting position by single moves or jumps over other pieces

Chinese chess

a variant of chess traditionally played in China

Chinese compliment

A pretense of deference; a veiled or subtle insult

Chinese compliments

plural form of Chinese compliment

Chinese cuisine

The generalised style of food found in Chinese restaurants elsewhere in the world

Chinese cuisine

The various styles of cuisine in the various regions of China

Chinese cypress

Cupressus duclouxian, a conifer of the family Cupressaceae, found only in China

Chinese desert cat

Chinese mountain cat

Chinese desert cats

plural form of Chinese desert cat

Chinese dragon

A large snake-like lizard with the eyes of a hare, the horns of a stag, and the claws of a tiger; known for its benevolent behavior in ancient Oriental mythology. Also, the nickname for China in Command and Conquer Generals and Generals Zero Hour

Chinese dragon

a mythical or symbolic creature, usually depicted as long and snakelike, with many claws, common in several East Asian cultures

Chinese dragons

plural form of Chinese dragon

Chinese fire drill

A silly, pointless exercise

Chinese fire drill

A prank performed while stopped in a car at a red-light; each passenger (including the driver) shouts "Chinese fire drill", exits the vehicle, runs at least once around it, then re-enters, taking a different seat

Chinese fire drills

plural form of Chinese fire drill

Chinese food

Food native to or commonly found in China

Chinese food

Food commonly associated with North American Chinese, such as lo mein, fortune cookies, sesame chicken, and so on

Chinese gooseberries

plural form of Chinese gooseberry

Chinese gooseberry

kiwi fruit

Chinese grapefruit

pomelo

One rather unusual citrus fruit is the large-fruited pomelo or Chinese grapefruit, C. maxima. This is larger than a grapefruit, pale green when ripe, and has thick soft rind and quite sweet flesh. It is commonly grown in southern China.

Chinese grapefruits

plural form of Chinese grapefruit

Walnuts, chestnuts, apples, Chinese grapefruits and oranges each added their stamp of approval to that celebration.

Chinese hamster

A species of hamster (Cricetulus griseus) originating in the deserts of northern China and Mongolia

Chinese hamsters

plural form of Chinese hamster

Chinese juniper

is a shrub or tree, very variable in shape, reaching 1-20 m tall, native to northeast Asia

Chinese junipers

plural form of Chinese juniper

Chinese lantern

bladder cherry

Chinese lanterns

plural form of Chinese lantern

Chinese mantis

A species of mantis, originating in China, taxonomic name Tenodera sinensis

Chinese medicine

traditional Chinese medicine

Chinese mountain cat

A small wild cat, Felis bieti, living in western China

Chinese mountain cats

plural form of Chinese mountain cat

Chinese pangolins

plural form of Chinese pangolin

Chinese pheasant

golden pheasant, Chrysolophus pictus

Chinese pheasant

common pheasant, Phasianus colchicus

Chinese pheasants

plural form of Chinese pheasant

Chinese puzzle

A senseless situation

Chinese puzzles

plural form of Chinese puzzle

Chinese red

Of a vivid red colour tinted with orange

Chinese red

A vivid red colour tinted with orange

Chinese red colour:.

Chinese reds

plural form of Chinese red

Chinese restaurant syndrome

A syndrome associated with consumption of the westernized version of Chinese food, characterized by various symptoms such as burning and tingling sensations, rapid heartbeat, and drowsiness, and tentatively ascribed to monosodium glutamate in the food

Chinese silver

An alloy used for jewelry. Its composition is 58% copper, 17.5% zinc, 11.5% nickel, 11% cobalt, and 2% silver

Chinese snooker

A reverse snooker position where the cue ball is in front of, rather than behind, a ball that is not on, making the shot very difficult because the bridge is hampered and the cueing angle is unnaturally high

Now, happy bridging over a chinese snooker.

Chinese squeeze

The practice of stealing profits

Chinese squeezes

plural form of Chinese squeeze

Chinese truffle

A species of truffle, Tuber sinensis (sometimes called Tuber indicum), native to China

Chinese truffles

plural form of Chinese truffle

Chinese whispers

Anything resembling this particular game, for instance a verbal misunderstanding

Chinese whispers

A game for several players in which a phrase is whispered by each person in turn to their neighbour, the phrase often being unwittingly misunderstood as it is transferred, to humorous effect by the time it reaches the last person and is compared with the original phrase

Classical Chinese

The written Chinese|written Chinese]] language used from the Zhou Dynasty|Zhou Dynasty]] (1045 BCE) to the early 20th century

Classical Chinese

The written Chinese|written Chinese]] language used from the Zhou Dynasty|Zhou Dynasty]] (1045 BCE) (especially the Spring and Autumn Period|Spring and Autumn Period]]), through to the end of the Han Dynasty|Han Dynasty]] (220 CE). In Chinese, 古文 (“Ancient Writing”) or, formally, 古典漢語 (“Classical Chinese”). The language of many classics of Chinese literature

Cochin-Chinese

Of, or relating to Cochin-China or its inhabitants

Cochin-Chinese

A native or inhabitant of Cochin China

Han Chinese

the largest ethnic group indigenous to China

Han Chinese

referring to the largest ethnic group indigenous to China

Literary Chinese

The written Chinese|written Chinese]] language used from the end of the Han Dynasty|Han Dynasty]] (220 CE) to the early 20th century. In Chinese, 文言 (“literary writing”)

Literary Chinese

The written Chinese|written Chinese]] language used from the Zhou Dynasty|Zhou Dynasty]] (1045 BCE) (especially the Spring and Autumn Period|Spring and Autumn Period]]), through to the end of the Han Dynasty|Han Dynasty]] (220 CE). In Chinese, 古文 (“Ancient Writing”). The language of many classics of Chinese literature

Literary Chinese

Written Chinese for this entire period, without distinction

Mandarin Chinese

A category of related Chinese dialects spoken across most of northern and southwestern China

Mandarin Chinese

Standard Mandarin

Middle Chinese

Chinese language spoken during Southern and Northern Dynasties and the Sui, Tang, and Song dynasties (6th century - 10th century)

Old Chinese

A linguistic ancestor of the Chinese languages, spoken during roughly the first millennium BCE

Simplified Chinese

Chinese written using simplified Chinese characters, used in the People's Republic of China and Singapore, jiantizi

Traditional Chinese

Chinese written using traditional Chinese characters, used in the Republic of China (Taiwan), Hong Kong, Macau, Korea and also in mainland China and Japan prior to script simplification and today for certain purposes, Fantizi

chinese checkers

Alternative form of Chinese checkers

chinese snooker

Alternative spelling of Chinese snooker

have more chins than a Chinese phone book

To be exceedingly fat, especially under the chin (as in a "double chin")

My friend, Hank Zona, used to nod his head in someone's direction and whisper, That guy has more chins than a Chinese phone book..

mainland Chinese

A person living in or originating from mainland China

mainland Chinese

Of or pertaining to mainland China

overseas Chinese

A person or people of Chinese ethnicity, living in a non-Chinese country; a member of the ethnic Chinese expatriate or immigrant community

Malcolm Moore, Overseas Chinese become targets. The Telegraph. August 7, 2009. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/malcolmmoore/100005869/overseas-chinese-become-targets/.

traditional Chinese medicine

The medical theory and practices of Chinese culture, especially herbal medicine, acupuncture and osteopathy, for preventing or treating illness, or promoting health and well-being; abbreviated as TCM

{n} a native or natives of China

chinese water torture

{a} pertaining to China

Chinese Taipei

(Coğrafya) Chinese Taipei is the designated name used by the Republic of China (ROC), commonly known as "Taiwan", to participate in some international organizations and almost all sporting events, such as the Olympics, Paralympics, Asian Games and Asian Para Games. The international community commonly employs the term "Chinese Taipei" due to political pressure by the People's Republic of China (PRC), commonly known as China, which prefers the name as it creates ambiguity about the independence and political status of Taiwan, blocks international visibility of the "Republic of China" as a country, and implies that ROC is part of the same "China" under PRC's control. It is seen as an important tool to influence international perception of cross-strait relations and Taiwan's political status as a sovereign state

chinese broccoli

(Botanik, Bitkibilim) Kai-lan (literally "mustard orchid"), also known as Chinese broccoli or Chinese kale, is a slightly bitter leaf vegetable featuring thick, flat, glossy blue-green leaves with thick stems and a small number of tiny, almost vestigial flower heads similar to those of broccoli. As a group of Brassica oleracea, kai-lan is of the same species of plant as broccoli and kale. Its flavor is very similar to that of broccoli, though not identical, being a bit sweeter

chinese kale

chinese torture

Chinese water torture is the popular name for a method of water torture in which water is slowly dripped onto a person's forehead, driving the victim insane. This form of torture was first described under a different name by Hippolytus de Marsiliis in Italy in the 16th century

chinese wall

A barrier, especially one that seriously hinders communication or understanding: “still believe a Chinese wall can exist between public and private selves” (Gail Sheehy)

(Oyunlar) (plural noun treated as singular) A game in which a message is distorted by being passed around in a whisper

(Oyunlar) Chinese whispers or Telephone is a game in which each successive participant secretly whispers to the next a phrase or sentence whispered to them by the preceding participant. Cumulative errors from mishearing often result in the sentence heard by the last player differing greatly and amusingly from the one uttered by the first. It is most often played by children as a party game or in the playground. It is often invoked as a metaphor for cumulative error, especially the inaccuracies of rumours

han chinese

Han Chinese are a heterogenous ethnic group dominant in China and the largest single human ethnic group in the world. Han Chinese constitute about 92 percent of the population of the People's Republic of China and about 19 percent of the entire global human population. There is substantial genetic, linguistic, cultural and social diversity between its various subgroups, mainly due to thousands of years of regionalized assimilation of various ethnic groups and tribes in China. The Han Chinese are a subset of the Chinese nation (Zhonghua minzu). An alternate name that many Chinese peoples use to refer to themselves is "Descendants of the Dragon."

{s} of or pertaining to China

Something that is Chinese relates or belongs to China or its languages or people. The Chinese are the people who come from China

{i} native or resident of China; the Chinese people

{i} language spoken in China

Chinese Communist Party

The languages that are spoken in China, especially Mandarin, are often referred to as Chinese. relating to China, its people, or its language. Chinese mustard Chinese cabbage Chinese Communist Party Chinese examination system Chinese languages Chinese law Chinese medicine traditional Chinese writing system

Political party founded in China in 1921 by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao. It grew directly from the reform-oriented May Fourth Movement and was aided from the start by Russian organizers. Under Russian guidance, the CCP held its First Congress in 1921; the Russians also invited many members to the Soviet Union for study and encouraged cooperation with the Chinese Nationalist Party. This cooperation lasted until 1927, when the communists were expelled. CCP fortunes declined rapidly after several failed attempts at uprisings, and the few members that remained fled to central China to regroup, where they formed a soviet-style government in Jiangxi. Harried by the Nationalist army under Chiang Kai-shek, the CCP forces undertook the Long March to northwestern China, when Mao Zedong became the party's undisputed leader. War with the Japanese broke out in 1937 and led to a temporary alliance between the CCP and the Nationalists. After World War II, the CCP participated in U.S.-mediated talks with the Nationalists, but in 1947 the talks were abandoned and civil war resumed. The CCP increased its already strong rural base through land redistribution, and in 1949 it took control of mainland China. In the decades that followed, radical members led by Mao and moderates led initially by Liu Shaoqi vied for control of the party and the direction of China. After Mao's death in 1976 the party moved steadily toward economic, if not political, liberalization. The government's brutal suppression of student protesters at Tiananmen Square in 1989 produced a major shakeup in party leadership. Today the CCP sets policy, which government officials implement. The organs at the top of the CCP are the Political Bureau, the Political Bureau's Standing Committee, and the Secretariat, among which the division of power is constantly shifting. See also Lin Biao; Zhou Enlai; Deng Xiaoping

Chinese Exclusion Act

{i} U.S. federal law enacted in 1882 that suspended immigration of Chinese laborers (repealed in 1943)

Chinese Wall

{i} Great Wall of China, 1,500 miles long wall which is the world's longest system of fortified walls which was built in the 3rd century BC by the Ch'in dynasty (located in northern China)

Chinese anise

An evergreen tree (Illicium anisatum), native to Japan and Korea and having aromatic leaves and fragrant white or yellow flowers

Chinese artichoke

A perennial Chinese herb (Stachys affinis) in the mint family, cultivated for its edible tuberous underground stems that somewhat resemble a string of large whitish beads

Chinese boxes

A set of boxes of graduated size, each fitting inside the next larger one

Chinese cabbage

Either of two widely cultivated members of the mustard family, bok choy and Brassica pekinensis. The latter vegetable, also called celery cabbage, forms a tight head of crinkled light green leaves. It has long been grown in the U.S. as a salad vegetable. All Chinese cabbages are delicate and crisp, qualities that enable them to combine with a wide variety of foods. Kimchi, the universal Korean pickle, is often made with Chinese cabbage

Chinese cabbage

plant belonging to the mustard family which tastes similar to a cabbage

Chinese calendar

The traditional lunisolar calendar of the Chinese people, based on 24 seasonal segments each about 15 days long. An intercalary month is occasionally necessary to reconcile the lunar year with the solar year

Chinese checkers

{i} board game in which marbles are moved across a pattern of holes that resemble a six-pointed star (for two to six players)

Chinese checkers

A board game in which each player tries to move a set of marbles arranged in holes from one point of a six-pointed star to the opposite point by means of single moves or jumps

Chinese chestnut

A chestnut (Castanea mollissima) native to China and Korea, resistant to chestnut blight and cultivated as an ornamental and for its edible nuts

Chinese chive

An eastern Asian herb (Allium tuberosum) having flat leaves, small white flowers, and elongated bulbs covered with a fibrous coat. Often used in the plural. Also called garlic chive, Oriental garlic

Chinese citizen

{i} citizen of China (country in eastern Asia)

Chinese evergreen

A Chinese evergreen plant (Aglaonena modestum) cultivated as a houseplant for its dark green or occasionally variegated foliage

Chinese examination system

In China, system of competitive examinations for recruiting officials that linked state and society and dominated education from the Song dynasty (960-1279) onward, though its roots date to the imperial university established in the Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220). Candidates faced fierce competition in a series of exams dealing primarily with Confucian texts and conducted on the prefectural, provincial, and national levels. Despite a persistent tendency to emphasize rote learning over original thinking and form over substance, the exams managed to produce an elite grounded in a common body of teachings and to lend credibility to claims of meritocracy. Too inflexible to be capable of modernization, the system was finally abolished in 1905. See also Five Classics; Four Books

Chinese houses

Any of several chiefly Californian plants of the genus Collinsia, especially C. heterophylla, which has several widely spaced whorls of purple and white flowers suggestive of a pagoda

Chinese kale

A Chinese vegetable (Brassica oleracea var. alboglabra) of the mustard family, related to the cabbage and grown for its leafy shoots used in eastern Asian cuisine

Chinese languages

or Sinitic languages Family of languages comprising one of the two branches of Sino-Tibetan. They are spoken by about 95% of the inhabitants of China and by many communities of Chinese immigrants elsewhere. Linguists regard the major dialect groups of Chinese as distinct languages, though because all Chinese write with a common system of ideograms, or characters (see Chinese writing system), and share Classical Chinese as a heritage, traditionally all varieties of Chinese are regarded as dialects. There is a primary division in Chinese languages between the so-called Mandarin dialects which have a high degree of mutual intelligibility and cover all of the Chinese speech area north of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) and west of Hunan and Guangdong provinces and a number of other dialect groups concentrated in southeastern China. Far more people more than 885 million speak a variety of Mandarin Chinese as a first language than any other language in the world. The northern Mandarin dialect of Beijing is the basis for Modern Standard Chinese, a spoken norm that serves as a supradialectal lingua franca. Important dialect groups other than Mandarin are Wu (spoken in Shanghai), Gan, Xiang, Min (spoken in Fujian and Taiwan), Yue (including Cantonese, spoken in Guangzhou [Canton] and Hong Kong), and Kejia (Hakka), spoken by the Hakka. The modern Chinese languages are tone languages, the number of tones varying from four in Modern Standard Chinese to nine in some dialects

Chinese lantern

n. A decorative collapsible lantern of thin, brightly colored paper. a small box made of thin paper that you put a light inside as a decoration

Chinese lantern

collapsible lantern made of thin colored paper (originated in China); winter cherry, plant of Eurasia that has red berries contained in orange papery cases (of the nightshade family); berry of the winter cherry plant

Chinese law

Law that evolved in China from the earliest times until the 20th century, when Western socialist law (see Soviet law) was introduced. The oldest extant and complete Chinese law code was compiled in AD 653 during the Tang dynasty. Traditional Chinese law was influenced both by Confucianism, which allowed variability in moral conduct according to status and circumstances, and by Legalist, or Fajia, principles, which stressed reliance on uniform objective standards. The law also was affected by the emperor's divine role in the universe. The emperor was considered responsible to heaven for any disturbance in the earthly sphere; whenever a disturbance occurred, punishment was considered a means of restoring the cosmic equilibrium. All citizens were obliged to denounce wrongdoers to the local magistrate's office. The magistrate studied the facts of a case and, using the penal code, determined punishments, including beatings and torture. A profession of advocates, or lawyers, never developed in China. Traditional law continued to exert influence even after the communists gained power in China in 1949

Chinese leaves

a type of cabbage eaten especially in East Asia

Chinese medicine

a kind of medicine that uses herbs and acupuncture

Chinese medicine

method of healing based on traditional Chinese treatments (such as herbal medicine, acupuncture, etc.)

Chinese mustard

Any of several cultivated varieties of the Indian mustard, grown for their leafy shoots and eaten as a vegetable especially in eastern Asian cuisine

Chinese paper

very thin paper known as rice paper

Chinese puzzle

conundrum, mystery, something that is very complex; clever puzzle comprised of boxes within boxes

Chinese red

{i} vermillion, bright reddish orange color

Chinese restaurant

restaurant which serves Chinese food

Chinese restaurant syndrome

A group of symptoms, including dizziness, facial pressure, sweating, and headache, that may occur after the ingestion of food containing large amounts of monosodium glutamate

Chinese tallow tree

An ornamental tree (Sapium sebiferum), native to China and Japan and naturalized in the southern United States and having a thick waxy seed coat that is used in making candles and soap. Also called vegetable tallow

Chinese vase

ornamental container made and decorated in China

Chinese wall

{i} barrier that hinders the passing of information; insuperable obstacle; set of severe rules implemented within firms (such as a financial institution, etc.) which are meant to prevent the exchange of top secret information between the different divisions as to avoid conflict of interest

Chinese wall

A barrier, especially one that seriously hinders communication or understanding: "still believe a Chinese wall can exist between public and private selves" (Gail Sheehy)

Chinese whispers

the passing of information from one person to another, and then to others, when the information gets slightly changed each time

Chinese writing system

System of symbols used to write the Chinese language. Chinese writing is fundamentally logographic: there is an exact correspondence between a single symbol, or character, in the script and a morpheme. Each character, no matter how complex, is fit into a hypothetical rectangle of the same size. The Chinese script is first attested in divinatory inscriptions incised on bone or tortoise shells dating from the Shang dynasty. Early forms of characters were often clearly pictorial or iconic. Shared elements of characters, called radicals, provide a means of classifying Chinese writing. It is thought that an ordinary literate Chinese person can recognize 3,000-4,000 characters. Efforts have been made to reduce the number of characters and to simplify their form, though the fact that they can be read by a speaker of any Chinese language and their inextricable link with China's 3,000-year-old culture makes abandonment of the system unlikely. Chinese characters have also been adapted to write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese

Classical Chinese

Of or relating to Classical Chinese

Indo-Chinese

{s} of or pertaining to Indochina

Indo-Chinese

{i} Sino-Tibetan; natives or inhabitants of Indochina

Indo-Chinese languages

languages of Indochina (peninsula in southeastern Asia)

Mandarin Chinese

{i} official spoken language of China; Chinese dialect spoken in and around Beijing

Mann's Chinese Theater

{i} famous cinema in Hollywood whose entrance is decorated with hand and footprints of famous movie stars

Middle Chinese

The Chinese language during the Sui and Tang dynasties (581-907)

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a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China

Yuzhi Wu Ti Qing Wen Jian

of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language; "the Taiwanese capital is Taipeh"

The language of China, which is monosyllabic

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

literally: non-action Â

Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China

A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China

literally: non-action