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Sinoxenic

Sinoxenic is the alternative spelling of Sino-Xenic.

Meaning of Sino-Xenic

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

Questions about Sinoxenic

What is Sinoxenic the alternative spelling of?
Sinoxenic is the alternative spelling of Sino-Xenic.

Words near Sinoxenic in the dictionary

  1. Sinosphere
  2. Sinospheric
  3. sinostroside
  4. sinotubular
  5. sinovenous
  6. Sinoxenic
  7. Sinpu
  8. sinque
  9. sinques
  10. sinraptorid
  11. sinraptorids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Sinoxenic (page history and authors); Sino-Xenic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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