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- of or relating to China or its language, culture, or people（与）中国（有关）的; （与）汉语（有关）的; （与）中国文化（有关）的; （与）中国人（有关）的。
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- belonging to or relating to the people forming the dominant ethnic group of China and also widely dispersed elsewhere（与）汉族人（有关）的; （与）华人（有关）的。亦称HAN.
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- mass noun the Chinese language中文, 汉语。
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- a native or national of China, or a person of Chinese descent中国人; 华侨; 华裔。
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- Brit. informal a Chinese meal〈英, 非正式〉中国餐。
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- Brit. informal a Chinese restaurant〈英, 非正式〉中国餐馆。
Chinese, a member of the Sino-Tibetan language family, is the world's most commonly spoken first language, with an estimated 1.2 billion native speakers worldwide. The script is logographic, using characters which originated as stylized pictographs but now also represent abstract concepts and the sounds of syllables. Though complex, it permits written communication between speakers of the many dialects, most of which are mutually incomprehensible in speech. About 8, 000 characters are in everyday use, some having been simplified during the 20th century. For transliteration into the Roman alphabet, the Pinyin system is now usually used.