Sino-Xenic

See also: Sinoxenic

English

Alternative forms

• Sinoxenic, sinoxenic

Etymology

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

Adjective

Sino-Xenic (not comparable)

1. (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／历史 (lìshǐ, “history”) has the following Sino-Xenic descendants:

   • 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)

Translations

related to Chinese readings in Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese borrowings from medieval Chinese

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 漢字詞 / 汉字词 (zh) (Hànzìcí)

• Finnish: ulkokiinalainen
• French: sinoxénique (fr)
• German: sino-xenisch
• Hindi: चीन-विदेशी (cīn-videśī)
• Japanese: 漢語 (ja) (かんご)
• Korean: 한자어(漢字語) (ko) (Hanja'eo)
• Polish: sinokseniczny
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

Sino-Japanese — see Sino-Japanese

Sino-Korean — see Sino-Korean

Sino-Vietnamese — see Sino-Vietnamese

See also

• Sino-Japanese, kango, on'yomi (goon, kan'on, tōon)
• Sino-Korean
• Sino-Vietnamese
• CJK, CJKV
• hanzi, kanji, hanja, Hán tự