Sino-Xenic

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  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). not-comparable
    — 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)

词形变化

Sinoxenic alternative sinoxenic alternative

词源

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