chinês
Portuguese, noun
chinês is spelled C-H-I-N-Ê-S (6 letters) and appears 31 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 2,874th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chinês is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “Chinese person” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, chines is a different word: “second-person singular present subjunctive of chinar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “residente ou natural da China”.
What does chinês mean in English?
adjective
- 1
of China
- 2
of the Chinese people
- 3
of the Chinese language
noun
- 1
masculineChinese person
- 2
masculineChinese language
Ele sabe falar chinês.
noun
- 1
Portugalcolloquialmasculineellipsis of loja do chinês
verb
- 1
second-person singular present subjunctive of chinar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. relativo à China, sua cultura e seu povo 2. relativo a Taiwan
noun: 1. residente ou natural da China 2. língua da China; como é mais conhecido o dialeto mandarim, língua predominante no território chinês; outros dialetos chineses: cantonês (Hong-Kong), hakka (Taiwan), min ou fukien
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of chinês
- chinesa feminine
- chineses masculine plural
- chinesas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to chinês
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chinês in Portuguese?
chinês appears 31 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).