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 room

plural of Chinese radish

(Chinese cuisine) Synonym of daikon, particularly its Chinese varieties.

plural of Chinese plum

Prunus mume, the Japanese apricot. / Prunus salicina, the Japanese plum. / Eriobotrya japonica, the loquat.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Chinese, cherry. / Chinese flowering cherry (Prunus cyclamina) / Chinese plum-cherry (Prunus humilis) / Chinese sour cherry (Prunus pseudocerasus)

Ipomoea aquatica, water spinach, a semi-aquatic plant with hollow stems and long, lance-shaped leaves. / Amaranthus dubius, often bearing red or purple marks / Amaranthus tricolor, edible amaranth

plural of Chinese muntjac

Reeves's muntjac