Chinese vs Mandarin Chinese

Mandarin Chinese vs Chinese

Chinese and Mandarin Chinese both are nouns.

Chinese is an adjective but Mandarin Chinese is not an adjective.

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

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

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
Mandarin Chinese: the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China

Other hyponyms of Chinese include Beijing dialect, Mandarin, Mandarin dialect, Shanghai dialect, Wu, Wu dialect, Cantonese, Cantonese dialect, Yue, Yue dialect, Amoy, Amoy language, Fukien, Fukien language, Fukkianese, Fukkianese language, Hokkianese, Hokkianese language, Min, Min dialect, Min language, Taiwanese, Taiwanese language, Hakka, Hakka dialect.

Chinese (noun)	Mandarin Chinese (noun)
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	the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China
a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China

Chinese (adjective)	Mandarin Chinese (adjective)
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 Chinese and Mandarin Chinese

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