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)

(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
Japanese: 漢語 (ja) (かんご)
Korean: 한자어(漢字語) (ko) (Hanja'eo)
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

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