Ääntäminen
AU:
- Tuntematon aksentti:
- IPA: /ˈt͡ʃaɪnəmən/
- IPA: [ˈt͡ʃʰaɪ̯nəmɪ̽n]
- Caribbean:
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Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- (dated, now offensive) A Chinese person, or person of Chinese descent.
- A sailing ship of the 18th and 19th centuries engaged in the Old China Trade
- (US, slang, obsolete, offensive) Addiction from a narcotic, especially heroin.
Esimerkit
- A disorderly Chinaman is rare, and a lazy one does not exist. So long as a Chinaman has strength to use his hands he needs no support from anybody; white men often complain of want of work, but a Chinaman offers no such complaint; he always manages to find something to do.[...]Any white man can swear a Chinaman’s life away in the courts, but no Chinaman can testify against a white man.
- Another favorite pastime of the Highbinder who is usually a loafer, is to levy blackmail on a wealthy Chinaman.[...]If it were not that the Chinamen kill only men of their own race and let alone all other men, the citizens of San Francisco would have sacked and burned Chinatown.
- In Clark Street, where all the nations of the earth dwell together in harmony, one has but to go downstairs to find a Chinaman. And when found he is washing.
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