A group of related Chinese dialects spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. / Standard Mandarin.

(idiomatic, jargon) An information barrier within an organization, designed to ensure internal confidentiality; frequently used to prevent conflicts of interest.

A linguistic ancestor of the Chinese languages, spoken during roughly the first millennium BCE.

mustard greens (Brassica juncea)

dyer's woad (Isatis tinctoria, syn. Isatis indigotica). / Indigofera decora, a kind of indigo plant (summer wisteria). / Japanese indigo (Persicaria tinctoria), a flowering plant in the buckwheat family.

plural of Chinese numeral

Apium graveolens var. secalinum, a variety of celery with smaller stalks and flavorful leaves, grown in East Asian countries for use in cooking.

The setting of a thought experiment in which a person with no understanding of the Chinese language is locked in a room with a set of rules allowing them to produce answers to questions in Chinese. It aims to demonstrate that running a program cannot give a computer system a "mind", "understanding" or "consciousness", regardless of how intelligent it may appear.

plural of Chinese mantis

Coriandrum sativum, coriander (cilantro).