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English
Etymology
China + town.
Pronunciation
Noun
Chinatown (plural Chinatowns)
- A district of a city or town (in a country other than China) in which there is a large concentration of Chinese residents and businesses.
2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 185:She grabbed his hand again and marched him under the fake Oriental archway that heralded the beginning of Chinatown.
- (proscribed, slang) By extension, such a district filled with stereotypical "Chinese" people, of East Asians and Southeast Asians.
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Translations
a Chinese district outside China
- Arabic: حَيّ صِينِي m (ḥayy ṣīnī), تْشَايْنَاتَاوْن m (tšāynātāwn)
- Azerbaijani: çin qəsəbəsi, çayna-taun
- Belarusian: кіта́йскі кварта́л m (kitájski kvartál), чайната́ун m (čajnatáun)
- Bulgarian: кита́йски кварта́л m (kitájski kvartál), чайната́ун m (čajnatáun)
- Catalan: barri xinès m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 唐人街 (tong4 jan4 gaai1), 華埠/华埠 (waa4 fau6), 中國城/中国城 (zung1 gwok3 sing4)
- Mandarin: 唐人街 (zh) (tángrénjiē), 華埠/华埠 (zh) (huábù), 中國城/中国城 (zh) (zhōngguóchéng), (in Singapore) 牛車水/牛车水 (zh) (niúchēshuǐ)
- Czech: čínská čtvrť f
- Estonian: hiinalinn
- Finnish: kiinalaiskortteli
- French: quartier chinois m
- German: Chinatown (de) f, Chinesenstadt f
- Hebrew: צ׳יינהטאון m (chaynataun)
- Hungarian: kínai negyed (hu)
- Indonesian: pecinan (id)
- Irish: ceantar Síneach m
- Italian: chinatown f
- Japanese: 中華街 (ja) (ちゅうかがい, chūkagai), チャイナタウン (chainataun)
- Korean: 차이나타운 (chainataun)
- Malay: Pekan Cina
- Mongolian: хятад хороолол (xjatad xoroolol)
- Persian: محلهٔ چینیها (mahalle-ye čini-hâ)
- Polish: chińska dzielnica f
- Portuguese: Chinatown (pt) f
- Russian: кита́йский кварта́л m (kitájskij kvartál), чайната́ун (ru) m (čajnatáun)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: кинеска четврт f, чајнатаун m
- Roman: kineska četvrt f, čajnataun m
- Spanish: barrio chino m
- Swedish: Chinatown
- Tagalog: China Town
- Thai: ไชน่าทาวน์ (chainâataao)
- Turkish: Çin mahallesi
- Ukrainian: кита́йський кварта́л m (kytájsʹkyj kvartál), чайната́ун m (čajnatáun)
- Vietnamese: phố người Hoa, khu Hoa-kiều
- Welsh: ardal Tsieineaidd f
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Finnish
Etymology
From English Chinatown.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Chinatown
- Chinatown
Declension
Portuguese
Proper noun
Chinatown f
- Chinatown (a Chinese district outside China)