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