chino
Meanings
Noun
1. Chinese person
2. Chinese (language)
3. gobbledygook (an incomprehensible language) (colloquial)
4. a Chinese-run establishment (colloquial)
a. a Chinese restaurant (colloquial)
b. (US) variety store, dollar store, dime store, five-and-dime, (UK) pound shop (owned by a Chinese immigrant) (Spain, colloquial)
c. a small or medium-sized supermarket owned by a Chinese immigrant, typically found in residential areas (Argentina, colloquial)
5. heroin (taken by chasing the dragon) (colloquial, Spain)
6. someone with curly hair
7. kid (Colombia)
8. boy, servant (Latin America)
9. game where players try to guess the number of coins in another player's first (in the plural)
Examples138
China en chino se dice "Zhongguo".
China is called "Zhongguo" in Chinese.
Mi chino no es muy bueno.
My Chinese isn't very good.
Porque sé hablar chino.
The reason is because I can speak Chinese.
¿Están todos los que hablan chino?
Do they all speak Chinese?
¡Debo estar hablando chino!
I must be speaking Chinese!
O hablamos en chino o no hablamos.
Let’s either speak Chinese, or not speak at all.