Sino-Xenic

Sinoxenic English + pronunciations Alternative forms en Sinoxenic, en sinoxenic Etymology From en Sino- + en xeno- + en -ic, from en la-lat Sīnae the Chinese + en grc ξένος foreign; en 1 1953 American linguist Samuel Martin Samuel Martin (linguist) 1. Adjective - Sino-Xenic en linguistics 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). Example: the Chinese term 歷史 lìshǐ history has the following Sino-Xenic descendants: Japanese: ja 歴史 れきし, rekishi Jeju: jje 역ᄉᆞ(歷史) Korean: ko 역사(歷史) South Korea, ko 력사(歷史) North Korea Vietnamese: vi lịch sử (vi 歷史) Translations related to Chinese readings in Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese borrowings from medieval Chinese Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 漢字詞 Hànzìcí Finnish: fi ulkokiinalainen French: fr sinoxénique German: de sino-xenisch Hindi: hi चीन-विदेशी Japanese: ja 漢語 かんご, kango Korean: ko ^한자어(漢字語) Polish: pl sinokseniczny Portuguese: pt sino-xênico Russian: ru Spanish: es Sino-Japanese Sino-Korean Sino-Vietnamese See also en Sino-Japanese, kango, en on'yomi (goon, kan'on, tōon) en Sino-Korean en Sino-Vietnamese en CJK, en CJKV en hanzi, en kanji, en hanja, vi Hán tự