Chinese vs Min

Chinese and Min both are nouns.

Chinese is an adjective but Min is not an adjective.

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

As nouns, Min is a hyponym of Chinese; that is, Min 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
Min: any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province

Other hyponyms of Chinese include Beijing dialect, Mandarin, Mandarin Chinese, 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 dialect, Min language, Taiwanese, Taiwanese language, Hakka, Hakka dialect.

Chinese (noun)	Min (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	any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province
a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China	an Egyptian god of procreation

Chinese (adjective)	Min (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 Min

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