chinese

US: /tʃaɪˈniz/


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chinese /'tʃai'ni:z/
  • tính từ
    • (thuộc) Trung quốc
    • danh từ
      • người Trung quốc
      • (the chinese) nhân dân Trung quốc

    Collocation dictionary


    ADJ.

    Mandarin

    CHINESE + NOUN

    character

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    LANGUAGE:

    excellent, fluent, good, perfect ~
    He speaks fluent Japanese.

    bad, broken, poor~
    I got by with broken Chinese and sign language.

    colloquial, idiomatic, non-standard, pidgin, standard ~
    The inhabitants speak a kind of pidgin Spanish.

    spoken, written ~
    My spoken Polish is better than my written Polish.

    business ~
    She is doing a course in business English.

    original ~
    The fable is translated from the original French.

    know, read, speak, understand, use ~
    I am more comfortable using Spanish, if you don't mind.

    be fluent in ~
    She was fluent in German, Urdu and Swahili.

    do, learn ~
    I did German at school but I've forgotten most of it. I've been learning Arabic for four years.

    improve, practise ~
    I spent a month in Rome to improve my Italian.

    master ~
    I never really mastered Latin.

    translate sth into ~
    He has translated her latest book into Korean.

    ~ class, course, lesson
    I'm late for my Russian class.

    ~ interpreter, speaker, a speaker of ~
    the need for Gujarati interpreters

    a command/knowledge of ~
    He has a poor command of English.

    in ~
    What is ‘apple’ in French?He addressed me in his best Portuguese.


    Concise English dictionary


    Chineses‚tʃaɪ'niːz
    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 native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China
    adj.
    +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