1any 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
SynonymsChinese,
HyponymsHakka, Mandarin, Min, Wu, Yue,
HypernymsSinitic,
Type ofSinitic, Sinitic language,
TypesAmoy, Beijing dialect, Cantonese, Cantonese dialect, Fukien, Fukkianese, Hakka, Hakka dialect, Hokkianese, Mandarin, Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin dialect, Min, Min dialect, Shanghai dialect, Taiwanese, Wu, Wu dialect, Yue, Yue dialect,