Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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Chinaman | Yes | No | No | No |
Chinese | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Chinaman (noun) | Chinese (noun) |
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a ball bowled by a left-handed bowler to a right-handed batsman that spins from off to leg | 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 |
(ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent | a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China |
Chinaman (adjective) | Chinese (adjective) |
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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 |