Hypernym

Sinitic 1

noun

a group of Sino-Tibetan languages

Domain_of_synset_-_REGION

China 1

noun

a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world

Chinese 1

noundomain: communication

Princeton WordNet [ver.3.1]

English

Definition

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

Hyponym

Mandarin 6

noun

the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China

Wu 1

noun

a dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta

Yue 1

noun

the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China

Min 2

noun

any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province

Hakka 2

noun

a dialect of Chinese spoken in southeastern China by the Hakka

Member_of_this_domain_-_REGION

China 1

noun

a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world

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