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Meaning of Chinee | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
/ˈt͡ʃaɪniː/

Definitions

A person from China.

dated, ethnic, offensive, slur

Examples

“But the hands that were played / By that heathen Chinee, / And the points that he made, / Were quite frightful to see,— / Till at last he put down a right bower, / Which the same Nye had dealt unto me.”
“We endure our abuses of orphanotrophism even when they are repulsive to the heathen Chinee.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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