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Sino-1|ˈsɪnəʊ, ˈsaɪnəʊ| combining form of Gr. σίναι, L. Sinæ (see Sinæan a.) the Chinese, as in ˈSinogram, a Chinese written character; Siˈnologer = Sinologue; Sinoˈlogical a., ‘relating to the Chinese language or literature’ (Webster Suppl. 1879); Siˈnologist, ˈSinologue, one versed in the Chinese language, or in the customs and history of China; Siˈnology, the study of things Chinese (Imp. Dict. 1882); ˈSinophil a., fond of the Chinese; ˈSinophile [-phile], a lover of China or things Chinese; also as adj. and Sinoˈphilia, love of China or that which is Chinese; contrasted with Sinoˈphobia, dread or hatred of these; also Sinoˈphobic and ˈSinophobe adjs.; Sino-xenic a. [f. xen- (see xeno-) + -ic], of a language: unrelated to a Chinese language but containing some Chinese linguistic elements.
1898E. P. Evans Evol. Ethics viii. 318 *Sinograms, ideograms, and all hieroglyphics and picture-writing.
1857Sat. Rev. 3 Jan. 12/2 One of the greatest living French *Sinologers.
1877Trübner's Amer. & Oriental Lit. Record XI. 2/1 It is significant of the preponderance assigned in *sinological studies to the English language, that Mr. von Möllendorff has thought it desirable to publish his work in English. 1970Guardian 26 Nov. 15/6 This very readable and also scholarly collection..has all kinds of Sinological goodies too.
1816P. du Ponceau Let. 31 July in Trans. Hist. & Lit. Comm. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1816 I. 400 As I am no *Sinologist, I will not undertake to say that the description which I have attempted to give of this language..is very accurate. 1838― Chinese Syst. Writing Introd. 26 Those sinologists who consider ideas to be inseparably inherent in the Chinese characters. 1884Harper's Mag. Sept. 643/2 The Sinologist who read the scratches..as Chinese!
1853North-China Herald 21 May 167/2 Prince of *Sinologues. 1856Meadows Chinese 375 The metaphysical reader, even if no sinologue, will at once decide in favour of my version. 1880Sat. Rev. No. 1306. 581 A gifted young sinologue who bids fair to introduce a new era in the study of Chinese.
1894The Liberal 24 Nov. 50/1 The *Sinophil author of Primitive Civilization.
1900E. R. Scidmore China i. 7 One agrees and disagrees, too, with the sinologues, who are usually *sinophiles, that the Chinese are the one great race and flower of all Asia. 1977R. Ludlum Chancellor MS. xxxiii. 350 He's a Sinophile..He has one of the most extensive Chinese art collections in the world.
1974Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 17 July 17/7 Ireland attributed the herbal pill fad to the public's ‘*sinophilia’ or ardent interest in Chinese culture including medicine.
1920W. J. Locke House of Baltazar iii. 31 Water-End became divided into two camps—Sinophile and *Sinophobe.
1966New Statesman 22 Apr. 601/2 Siam..exhibits considerable *Sinophobia.
1977New Yorker 24 Oct. 177/1 The Korean war and the *Sinophobic diplomacy of John Foster Dulles.
1972Computers & Humanities VI. 259 The term ‘dialect’ in this article refers loosely to all the sources of information in DOC: Middle Chinese,..18 modern Chinese dialects, and 3 *Sino-Xenic sources. 2. Combined with adjectives of nationality to mean ‘Chinese and..’ or ‘between China or the Chinese and (the country or people designated)’, as Sino-Albanian, Sino-American, Sino-Australian, Sino-British, Sino-Indian, Sino-Japanese, Sino-Malay, Sino-Mongolian, Sino-Russian, Sino-Soviet, Sino-Tibetan.
1976W. H. Canaway Willow-Pattern War v. 55 The Sino-Albanian axis.
1931H. B. Morse Far Eastern International Relations 750 (caption) Significance of the Sino-American treaty of 1928. 1978D. Bloodworth Crosstalk iii. 28 Sino-American exchanges..had yielded a private understanding.
1904Amer. Naturalist Sept. 676 The restriction of the Sino-Australian continent to a certain part of the Cretaceous times consequently would meet the postulates of geography and zoögeography.
1977South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) 15 Apr. 2/1 An insight into how Sino-British relations, already good, are likely to develop.
1959Listener 25 June 1093/2 The Sino-Indian agreement of April 1954.
1903Burlington Mag. Oct. 13/1 We must place to the front the fact that Sino-Japanese design is almost exclusively an art of contours. 1978Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXVI. 652/1 The terms of the Sino-Japanese Trade Agreement are, I would judge, likely to prove more beneficial to both parties than the EEC/China Agreement.
1975‘G. Black’ Big Wind for Summer ii. 22 The girl..was..Sino-Malay.
1976Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Feb. 206/2 In Central Asia..the Sino-Soviet frontier is straddled by a homogeneous Muslim population, while the Sino-Mongolian frontier is similarly straddled by a Mongolian population.
1926Glasgow Herald 23 Jan. 9 The rift in the Sino-Russian lute.
1929A. J. Toynbee Survey Internat. Affairs 1928 434 The zone..had reverted to Chinese administration in virtue of the Sino-Soviet Russian agreement of the 31st May 1924. 1959Listener 2 Apr. 598/3 The Sino-Soviet zone of nations. 1971H. Trevelyan Worlds Apart x. 125 Sino-Soviet companies were formed to exploit minerals and oil, to develop Sinkiang in which the Soviet Union had a close interest, and to manage civil aviation.
1973Times 14 Nov. 18/3 The Nagas are a group of 20 tribes of Sino-Tibetan origin. 3. Used similarly with ns. to form ns. (freq. attrib.) with the meaning ‘a language (family) or subsection of this, characterized by a relationship between Chinese and the language (family) specified’, as Sino-Japanese, Sino-Korean, Sino-Siamese; Sino-Tibetan, a family of languages comprising the Chinese, Tibeto-Burman, and (according to some scholars) the Tai languages.
1923B. Karlgren Analytic Dict. Chinese & Sino-Japanese 7 After the Sino-Japanese readings I often add in parenthesis the Kana spelling. 1954M. Pei Dict. Linguistics 198 Sino-Japanese, a term applied to Chinese loan-words in the Japanese language, the spoken form of which is different from the form or forms occurring in any of the spoken Chinese vernaculars. 1975Amer. Speech 1973 XLVIII. 122 If Japanese is indeed the source of the term, a more plausible model would be nemaki, the colloquial equivalent of shin-i, which is the learned or Sino-Japanese term.
1953Sino-Korean [see hangul2]. 1975Language LI. 257 Each representing a lexical item with information regarding..its pronunciation in the 21 major dialects of China and in the Sino-xenic languages, i.e. Sino-Japanese and Sino-Korean.
1948D. Diringer Alphabet 402 The Sino-Siamese sub-family of languages. 1954M. Pei Dict. Linguistics 198 Many linguists classify Chinese and Tai into one Tai-Chinese or Sino-Siamese sub-family.
1933L. Bloomfield Language iv. 69 The great Indo-Chinese (or Sino-Tibetan) family consists of three branches. 1948R. A. D. Forrest Chinese Lang. i. 21 Chinese is reckoned as an independent member of the Sino-Tibetan, Indo-Chinese, or Sinitic family of languages. 1977C. F. & F. M. Voegelin Classification & Index of World's Langs. 307 It is the older, more liberal, classifications of Sino-Tibetan that have now come under critical scrutiny. |