Sinesian

Adjective

Sinesian (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Synonym of Chinese or Chinese-like, of, related to, or similar to Chinese people, things, or culture.
   • In the time of George II., when these grounds were first laid out for his son, the Chinese fashion in gardening was in vogue, and the grounds round the present lake by the Palm-house were designed after the fashion of the picture in the old-fashioned willow-pattern plate... The Great Pagoda...1875, Andrew Wynter, “Kew Gardens”, in Fruit between the Leaves, pages 20-21
   • ... the Sinesian World (e.g., cross-institutionally between all Chinese-speaking nations) ...2018 March, Maxat Kassen, “Open Data and Its Institutional Ecosystems...”, in Canadian Public Administration, volume 60, page 118

   Synonyms:

   Chinese or Chinese-like, of, related to, or similar to Chinese people, things, or culture

2. (archaic) Synonym of East Asian, with especial focus on Chinese people and culture: of or related to the Sinosphere.
   • The almost total absence of the warrior-spirit from the poetry of the Far East is a remarkable fact in the history of Sinesian civilisation.1899 April, Frederick Victor Dickins, "The Origins of the Japanese State", The English Historical Review, No. LIV, p. 226
   • In this admirable work an authentic account is given of that tract of the earth's surface to which in these columns we have sometimes ventured to give the name Sinesia—the Far East, that immense Asiatic region which nature has isolated from the rest of the world by deserts, mountains, and seas......1905 September 16, “Literature: The Far East. By Archibald Little...”, in Athenæum, number 4064, page 361

   Synonyms:

   East Asian, with especial focus on Chinese people and culture