Sino-xenic Definition
adjective
Sino-Xenic pronunciations are regular systems for reading Chinese in Japan, Korea and Vietnam, originating in medieval times and the source of large-scale borrowings of Chinese words into the Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese languages, none of which are genetically related to Chinese (excluding Sinitic topolects).
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Origin of Sino-xenic
Sino- + Ancient Greek ξένος (ksenos, “foreign, strange”)
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