How to Use Chinese in a Sentence

Chinese

noun

• He is learning to speak Chinese.
• Electric cars — nearly all of them Chinese — were the one bright spot, with sales up 11%.
  — Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
• Old posters, in English and Chinese, still line the deserted halls.
  — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
• Bengtsson said many of the factories in Vietnam are owned by Chinese.
  — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, WWD, 3 Mar. 2025
• Most of the takers were Chinese seeking better jobs, better schools and greater freedom.
  — Joy Dong, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
• Mandarin, a form of Chinese, is the most common language in Taiwan.
  — Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 14 Oct. 2024
• Sesame Chinese One of the best hole-in-the-wall local Chinese restaurants in town.
  — Vogue, 3 Apr. 2024
• Mao thought sparrows were a pest, exterminated them, and caused a famine that killed millions of Chinese.
  — Itxu Díaz, National Review, 31 Dec. 2023
• On a trip to Malaysia, I was introduced to a dish called Chinese Steamboat.
  — Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• Throngs of college students joined the overnight ride, the latest trend involving young Chinese traveling on the cheap.
  — Peter Guo, NBC News, 11 Nov. 2024
• Red chiles and Sichuan pepper mingle to create the fiery, mouth-numbing flavor profile known in Chinese as mala.
  — Saveur Editors, Saveur, 28 Sep. 2023
• Her mother is Jamaican and Chinese while her father is Black and Polish.
  — Katie Mannion, Peoplemag, 5 May 2024
• The Padres also are the team with Hader, a star with more usage rules than Mandarin Chinese.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2023
• And in the last few years, as the city’s Asian population has boomed, Chinese Americans have joined them.
  — Mitch Smith, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2023
• Macau here really seems like an illusion, a Chinese Brigadoon that maybe was there or wasn’t for Lord Doyle.
  — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 30 Aug. 2025
• Officials linked it to a Chinese Long March 7 rocket launched in mid-July.
  — Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
• Almost no court women were taught to read or write Chinese, the language of the imperial bureaucracy.
  — Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025
• Newsweek reached out to the Philippine coast guard and Chinese Foreign Ministry by email with requests for comment.
  — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 25 Mar. 2025
• So did Chen, who translated the funeral sermon from Chinese to English and brought Kao’s old friends to tears.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2023
• Murphy is a fan of the minidramas, known as duanju in Chinese, which focus heavily on romance, revenge and fantasy.
  — Yixuan Tan, NBC news, 17 Aug. 2025
• The mussel is commonly referred to as the brightband Tongchuan mussel in English, or ming jian tong chuan bang in Chinese, researchers said.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 18 Aug. 2025
• In the mid-20th century, about 80 percent of Chinese lived in the countryside, and many lacked property.
  — Ian Johnson, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2025
• Adding to its unusual status, the play is performed in Chinese by a cast of Western actors who are based in the Middle Kingdom.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 10 Jan. 2024
• In one account, there are 600 million permanent buildings in Mainland China, or one building for every two Chinese.
  — Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
• There’s Mexican, Chinese, Indigenous and Catholic imagery all braided into one mural.
  — Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2025
• Translators are also coming to assist police as most of the people on the tour bus were Indian, Chinese and Filipino, O’Callaghan said.
  — Mark Morales, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2025
• The sections are divided into the Hawaiian, Chinese, and Japanese areas, reflecting the cultures that have left the most prominent imprints on the islands.
  — Cemile Kavountzis, Travel + Leisure, 24 Aug. 2025
• While Chinese Taipei earned a 3-0 win over Mexico to advance in the international bracket, much of the conversation after the game centered on a rare pitching feat.
  — Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 16 Aug. 2025
• Former player Fan Zhiyi, dubbed a trailblazer for being one of the first Chinese who played in the English leagues in the 1990s, said the loss was predictable, but not to that extent.
  — Chris Lau, CNN, 6 Sep. 2024
• One way hosts interact with their teams is through pin trading, a major staple thought to have begun in the 1970s when a team from Chinese Taipei brought pins to the tournament and exchanged them with players from other teams.
  — Zach Powell, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025