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TAIWANESE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province
Synonyms:
Amoy; Fukien; Fukkianese; Hokkianese; Min; Min dialect; Taiwanese
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Taiwanese" is a kind of...):
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A native or inhabitant of Taiwan
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Taiwanese" is a kind of...):
Asian; Asiatic (a native or inhabitant of Asia)
Holonyms ("Taiwanese" is a member of...):
China; Nationalist China; Republic of China; Taiwan (a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the Communists led by Mao Zedong)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language
Example:
the Taiwanese capital is Taipeh
Synonyms:
Chinese; Formosan; Taiwanese
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Taiwan (a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the Communists led by Mao Zedong)
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