English Explanatory Dictionary

Sino-Xenic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Related to pronunciations for reading Chinese in Japan, Korea and Vietnam, originating in medieval times and the source of large-scale borrowings of Chinese words into Japonic, Koreanic and Vietnamese languages, none of which are genetically related to Chinese (excluding Sinitic topolects).

Word forms

Sino-Xenic Sinoxenic

Etymology

From Sino- + xeno- + -ic, from Late Latin Sīnae (“the Chinese”) + Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos, “foreign”); coined by American linguist Samuel Martin in 1953.

Related words

Sino-Japanese kango on'yomi Sino-Korean Sino-Vietnamese CJK CJKV hanzi kanji hanja Hán tự
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on S Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary