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Sino-Xenic en · ADJ

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) 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

Forms

Relateds

hanja · CJK · CJKV · Sino-Japanese · hanzi · Sino-Vietnamese · Hán tự · on'yomi · kango · kanji · Sino-Korean

Translations (9)

ko 한자어 (related to Chinese readings in Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese borrowings from medieval Chinese) · cmn 漢字詞 /汉字词 (related to Chinese readings in Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese borrowings from medieval Chinese) · hi चीन-विदेशी (related to Chinese readings in Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese borrowings from medieval Chinese) · pl sinokseniczny (related to Chinese readings in Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese borrowings from medieval Chinese) · fr sinoxénique (related to Chinese readings in Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese borrowings from medieval Chinese) · pt sino-xênico (related to Chinese readings in Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese borrowings from medieval Chinese) · fi ulkokiinalainen (related to Chinese readings in Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese borrowings from medieval Chinese) · de sino-xenisch (related to Chinese readings in Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese borrowings from medieval Chinese) · ja 漢語 (related to Chinese readings in Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese borrowings from medieval Chinese)