handsome roundheaded deciduous tree having compound dark green leaves and profuse panicles of fragrant creamy-white flowers; China and Japan
a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
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
a student who holds a scholarship
of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language
a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China
a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
a figure that branches from a single root
