Sentence:  date of laying , length of incubation period , number of chicks reaching the first week , second week , fifth week , weight of hen , size of rooster 's wattles and so on , all scrawled out in a hand that looked more <WSD>Chinese</WSD> than English , the most jagged and sprawling Alex had ever seen . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  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