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Sino-Xenic

Sino-Xenic adjective: 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).

Adjective

Sino-Xenic (not comparable)

  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).
    • Japanese: 歴史 (れきし, rekishi)
      Jeju: 역ᄉᆞ(歷史) (yeoksaw)
      Korean: 역사(歷史) (yeoksa) (South Korea), 력사(歷史) (ryeoksa) (North Korea)
      Vietnamese: lịch sử (歷史)Example: the Chinese term 歷史／历史 (lìshǐ, “history”) has the following Sino-Xenic descendants

Sino-Xenic meaning in Hindi

Sino-Xenic in Hindi

related to Chinese readings in Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese borrowings from medieval Chinese
चीन-विदेशी cīn-videśī

Forms of Sino-Xenic

alternative formSinoxenic
alternative formsinoxenic

Origin of Sino-Xenic

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

Questions about Sino-Xenic

What does Sino-Xenic mean?
Sino-Xenic means 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).
What is Sino-Xenic in Hindi?
Sino-Xenic in Hindi is चीन-विदेशी (cīn-videśī). See Sino-Xenic meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is Sino-Xenic?
Sino-Xenic is an adjective.

Words near Sino-Xenic in the dictionary

  1. Sino-Tibetan
  2. Sino-Tibetanist
  3. Sino-Tibetanists
  4. Sino-Vietnamese
  5. Sino-Vietnameses
  6. Sino-Xenic
  7. sinoacutine
  8. sinoaortic
  9. sinoatrial
  10. sinoatrial conduction time
  11. sinoatrial conduction times

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