Chinese vs Yue dialect

Yue dialect vs Chinese

Chinese and Yue dialect both are nouns.

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

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

As nouns, Yue dialect is a hyponym of Chinese; that is, Yue 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
Yue dialect: the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China

Other hyponyms of Chinese include Beijing dialect, Mandarin, Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin dialect, Shanghai dialect, Wu, Wu dialect, Cantonese, Cantonese dialect, Yue, 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)	Yue 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	the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China
a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China

Chinese (adjective)	Yue 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 Yue dialect

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