Chinese vs Shanghai dialect

Shanghai dialect vs Chinese

Chinese and Shanghai dialect both are nouns.

Chinese is an adjective but Shanghai dialect is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Chinese	Yes	Yes	No	No
Shanghai dialect	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Shanghai dialect is a hyponym of Chinese; that is, Shanghai dialect 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
Shanghai dialect: a dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta

Other hyponyms of Chinese include Beijing dialect, Mandarin, Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin 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)	Shanghai dialect (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	a dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta
a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China

Chinese (adjective)	Shanghai dialect (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 Shanghai dialect

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