sinoxenic

/S AY1 N AA1 K S EH1 N IH0 K/
adjective
  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of Sino-Xenic. [(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).]

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