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Taiwanese vs Chinese

Chinese vs Taiwanese

Taiwanese and Chinese both are nouns.

Taiwanese and Chinese both are adjectives.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
Taiwanese Yes Yes No No
Chinese Yes Yes No No
As adjectives, Taiwanese and Chinese are synonyms defined as:
  • Taiwanese and Chinese: of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language
Other synonyms of Taiwanese include Formosan.
As nouns, Chinese is a hypernym of Taiwanese; that is, Chinese is a word with a broader meaning than Taiwanese:
  • Taiwanese: any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province
  • 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
Taiwanese (noun) Chinese (noun)
any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province 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 native or inhabitant of Taiwan a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China
Taiwanese (adjective) Chinese (adjective)
of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language 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 Taiwanese and Chinese

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