cheena

cheena
 adj.— «I could not help but feel that my entire being was placed in the wrong school, in fact, the wrong Cheena[1] school.…[1]A local slang word meaning “Very Chinese.”» —“Chinese, only on the inside” by Jane Communication… an art? Mar. 1, 2009. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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