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sinography

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English

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Etymology 1

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From sino- +‎ -graphy.

Noun

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sinography (uncountable)

  1. Diagnostic imaging of the sinus.

Etymology 2

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By surface analysis, sino- (“China, Chinese”) +‎ -graphy (“something written”).

Noun

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sinography (uncountable)

  1. Chinese writing.
    • 2003, Marc Hideo Miyake, Old Japanese: A Phonetic Reconstruction, →ISBN:
      Since sinography (Chinese writing) is language-specific and, in turn, individual sinographs are morpheme-specific, scribes in early Japan faced tremendous problems in adapting sinography to Japanese.
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