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TAIWANESE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Taiwanese mean? 

TAIWANESE (noun)
  The noun TAIWANESE has 2 senses:

1. a native or inhabitant of Taiwanplay

2. any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien provinceplay

  Familiarity information: TAIWANESE used as a noun is rare.


TAIWANESE (adjective)
  The adjective TAIWANESE has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their languageplay

  Familiarity information: TAIWANESE used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TAIWANESE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A native or inhabitant of Taiwan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Amoy; Fukien; Fukkianese; Hokkianese; Min; Min dialect; Taiwanese

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)


TAIWANESE (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

Chinese; Formosan; Taiwanese

Context example:

the Taiwanese capital is Taipeh

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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