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Sinic vs. Chinese — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Sinic and Chinese

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Definitions

Sinic

Of or pertaining to the Chinese and allied races; Chinese.

Chinese

Of or relating to China or its peoples, languages, or cultures.

Chinese

A native or inhabitant of China.

Chinese

A person of Chinese ancestry.

Chinese

See Han1.

Chinese

The sole member of the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family, consisting of numerous languages and dialects such as Mandarin, Cantonese, Taiwanese, and Fujian.
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Chinese

Any of the Sinitic varieties of speech spoken by the Chinese people.

Chinese

The official national language of China; Mandarin.

Chinese

Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China.

Chinese

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

Chinese

The language of China, which is monosyllabic.

Chinese

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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Chinese

A native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China

Chinese

Of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures;
Chinese food

Chinese

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

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