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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Also found in: Thesaurus, Acronyms, Idioms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Of or relating to China or its peoples, languages, or cultures. A native or inhabitant of China. The sole member of the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family, consisting of numerous languages and dialects such as Mandarin, Cantonese, Taiwanese, and Fujian. Any of the Sinitic varieties of speech spoken by the Chinese people.

Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. China belonging to the Sino-Tibetan family, sometimes regarded as dialects of one language. They share a single writing system that is not phonetic but ideographic. A phonetic system using the Roman alphabet was officially adopted by the Chinese government in 1966.