Sinography

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Diagnostic imaging of the sinus. uncountable
  2. 2
    Chinese writing. uncountable

    "Since sinography (Chinese writing) is language-specific and, in turn, individual sinographs are morpheme-specific, scribes in early Japan faced tremendous problems in adapting sinography to Japanese."

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"Since sinography (Chinese writing) is language-specific and, in turn, individual sinographs are morpheme-specific, scribes in early Japan faced tremendous problems in adapting sinography to Japanese."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From sino- + -graphy.

Etymology 2

By surface analysis, sino- (“China, Chinese”) + -graphy (“something written”).

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