CHINESE IN ENGLISH

 

 

Chinese boxes

Series of boxes fitting inside each other

Chinese cabbage

Brassica pekinensis

Chinese copy

Poor quality copy of industrial product

Chinese fire drill

Chaos

Chinese fire drill

Any sort of game exchanging specific roles, e.g. changing places at the wheel in a car

Chinese goose

Anser cygnoides

Chinese gooseberry

Kiwi fruit

Chinese ink

Very black type of ink, often used for artistic purposes

Chinese lantern

Physalis franchetti

Chinese lantern

Physalis alkekengi

Chinese lantern

Paper lantern for festive purposes

Chinese lily

Narcissus tazetta orientalis

Chinese puzzle

Any difficult three-dimensional puzzle, usually made of wood

Chinese puzzle

Difficult problem

Chinese tobacco

Opium

Chinese wall

And metaphorically: insurmountable problem

Chinese white

Zinc white

Chinese chequers

Difficult (at least, I think so) but interesting game

 

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