Asian vs Chinese

Chinese vs Asian

Asian and Chinese both are nouns.

Asian and Chinese both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Asian	Yes	Yes	No	No
Chinese	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, Chinese is a hyponym of Asian; that is, Chinese is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than Asian:

Asian: a native or inhabitant of Asia
Chinese: a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China

Other hyponyms of Asian include coolie, cooly, Evenki, Ewenki, Mongol, Mongolian, Indian, Eurasian, Afghan, Afghanistani, Altaic, Armenian, Bangladeshi, Bengali, Bhutanese, Bhutani, Burmese, Byzantine, Cambodian, Kampuchean, East Indian, Malay, Malayan, Hindoo, Hindu, Hindustani, Hmong, Miao, Indonesian, Irani, Iranian, Persian, Iraki, Iraqi, Israelite, Israeli, Japanese, Nipponese, Jordanian, Korean, Kurd, Kuwaiti, Lao, Laotian, Lebanese, Malaysian, Maldivan, Maldivian, Nepalese, Nepali, Pakistani, Parthian, Singhalese, Sinhalese, Sherpa, Syrian, Taiwanese, Tadzhik, Tajik, Siamese, Tai, Thai, Tibetan, Turki, Kazakhstani, Annamese, Vietnamese, Singaporean, Sri Lankan, Dardan, Dardanian, Trojan, Iberian, Mongoloid, Timorese, oriental person.

Asian (noun)	Chinese (noun)
a native or inhabitant of Asia	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
	a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China

Asian (adjective)	Chinese (adjective)
of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture	of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures
	of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language

Difference between Asian and Chinese

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