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Noun

1. 1
   A historical racial classification and term used in human physical anthropology as a Mongoloid subrace commonly found throughout East Asia and is associated with Chinese, Korean, and Japanese people. historical

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sinitic

Etymology

From Medieval Latin Sina (“China”) and -id.

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