English > Chinese: 4 senses > noun 1, communication| Meaning | 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. |
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| Region | China, People's Republic of China, mainland China, Communist China, Red China, PRC, Cathay | A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia |
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| Narrower | Hakka, Hakka dialect | A dialect of Chinese spoken in southeastern China by the Hakka |
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| Mandarin, Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin dialect, Beijing dialect | The dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China / China |
| Min, Min dialect, Fukien, Fukkianese, Hokkianese, Amoy, Taiwanese | Any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province |
| Wu, Wu dialect, Shanghai dialect | A dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta |
| Yue, Yue dialect, Cantonese, Cantonese dialect | The dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China / China |
| Broader | Sinitic, Sinitic language | A group of Sino-Tibetan languages |
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| Spanish | chino |
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| Catalan | xinès |
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