sinitic

English Thesaurus

1. a group of Sino-Tibetan languages (noun.communication)

hypernym	:	sino-tibetan, sino-tibetan language,
definition	:	the family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia (noun.communication)

hyponym	:	chinese,
definition	:	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 (noun.communication)

2. of or relating to the Chinese people or their language or culture (adj.pert)

pertainym	:	chinese,
definition	:	a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China (noun.person)

pertainym	:	chinese,
definition	:	a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China (noun.person)