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Meaning of Sinese | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

The Chinese people or a Chinese person, (particularly) with reference to the historical southern Chinese known to the Greeks and Romans as the Sinae.

rare, uncountable

Equivalents

Português sínese

Examples

“The name Θῖναι, Strabo, Σῖναι, Ptol., Τζίνιτζα, Kosmas, did not obtain currency first from the founder of the dynasty Tsin; but, long before this, Tsin was the name of a feudal kingdom in Shensi, one of the western provinces of the Sinese land, and Feitsa, the first feudal King of Tsin, began to reign as early as b.c. 897.”

CEFR level

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