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Sinophonic

Sinophonic adjective: pertaining to Chinese languages and speakers of Chinese.

Adjective

Sinophonic (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to Chinese languages and speakers of Chinese.
    • This particular interpretation of the Shaw Brothers' “Chinese dream” as strategic—both commercial and ideological—reinvention is why, in this chapter, I frame the Shaw Brothers' cinema as a Sinophonic rather than a diasporic production.2013, Howard Chiang, Ari Larissa Heinrich, Queer Sinophone Cultures, →ISBN, page 86
    • Overall, this article attempts to call for attention to the intellectual and practical importance of the study of Chinese politics in China's nation-building, identity search, and modernity, and to stimulate the discussion of the state of this scholarship for the purpose of developing the study of...2015, Wu Guoguang, Paradoxes Of China's Prosperity, →ISBN

Origin of Sinophonic

From Sino- + -phonic.

Questions about Sinophonic

What does Sinophonic mean?
Sinophonic means pertaining to Chinese languages and speakers of Chinese.
What part of speech is Sinophonic?
Sinophonic is an adjective.

Words near Sinophonic in the dictionary

  1. Sinophobes
  2. sinophobia
  3. Sinophobic
  4. sinophone
  5. sinophones
  6. Sinophonic
  7. sinopia
  8. sinopias
  9. sinopie
  10. sinopis
  11. sinopite

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