chinese
part of speech
adjective (Chinese); noun (Chinese — the language; the Chinese — the people)
meaning for a pupil
1) Chinese means from China or about China. tree →
2) Chinese is the language spoken in China; Mandarin is its main kind. tree →
3) The Chinese are the people of China. tree →
sense in the lessons
maths: a word of the story: Chinese food, a Chinese class, the Chinese New Year (no clue to the operation); school: learning Chinese characters, the Chinese zodiac animals, the Great Wall of China in history; everyday life: Chinese restaurants, chopsticks, dragon dances at Chinese New Year
examples
- 15 students study Chinese. tree →
- The Chinese restaurant sold 40 meals. tree →
- She learns 8 Chinese words a week. tree →
- He bought 3 Chinese lanterns. tree →
- We watched the dragon dance at Chinese New Year. tree →
- Chinese is written with characters, not letters. tree →
- My friend speaks Chinese and English. tree →
- They ate Chinese food with chopsticks. tree →
- "But mamma says the Chinese have straight hair," the little boy suggested. tree →
note
No clue about the operation; it describes a thing. Always a capital C. The plural is also «Chinese»: «two Chinese students». More people speak Chinese as a first language than any other language.
In the corpora
- The guzheng is a Chinese plucked zither with strings over movable bridges, played in China for over 2,000 years.
- There is a real Chinese martial art called Praying Mantis style, said to have been inspired by watching a mantis fight.
- Chinese water dragons live beside rivers, jump into water when scared and can stay under for around 25 minutes.
- In the cold fast streams lives the biggest amphibian in the world, the Chinese giant salamander.
- It can make a noise like a crying baby, so in Chinese it is called the baby fish.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «chinese» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.