Chinese

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: Chin=ese

CIDE DICTIONARY

Chinese, a. 

 Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China.  [1913 Webster]

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 Coccidæ especially Coccus Sinensis.

Chinese, n. sing. & pl. 

•  A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China.  [1913 Webster]
•  The language of China, which is monosyllabic.  [1913 Webster]

  " Chineses was used as a plural by the contemporaries of Shakespeare and Milton."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Chinese, adj. & n.
--adj. a of or relating to China. b of Chinese descent.
--n.
1 the Chinese language.
2 (pl. same) a a native or national of China. b a person of Chinese descent.

Idiom

Chinese cabbage = Chinese leaf. Chinese gooseberry = kiwi fruit. Chinese lantern
1 a collapsible paper lantern.
2 a solanaceous plant, Physalis alkekengi, bearing white flowers and globular orange fruits enclosed in an orange-red papery calyx. Chinese leaf a lettuce-like cabbage, Brassica chinensis. Chinese puzzle a very intricate puzzle or problem. Chinese water chestnut see water chestnut 2. Chinese white zinc oxide as a white pigment.