Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun taiwanese
2 senses of taiwanese
Sense 1
Taiwanese -- (a native or inhabitant of Taiwan)
=> Asian, Asiatic -- (a native or inhabitant of Asia)
Sense 2
Min, Min dialect, Fukien, Fukkianese, Hokkianese, Amoy, Taiwanese -- (any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province)
=> Chinese -- (any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system)
Similarity of adj taiwanese
1 sense of taiwanese
Sense 1
Taiwanese, Chinese, Formosan -- (of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language; "the Taiwanese capital is Taipeh")