The Korean vocabulary is composed of three components: native words, Sino-Korean words and loanwords.
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Sino-korean
//ˈsaɪn.əʊ kəˈɹiːən//
Synonyms for "sino-korean"
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Translations
30 translations across 16 languages.
Cebuano
1 entries- Sino-Koreano adj (being both Chinese and Korean)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 中韓的 /中韩的 adj (being both Chinese and Korean)
- 漢字詞 /汉字词 adj (Etymologically from or influenced by Chinese)
- 漢字詞 /汉字词 noun (the Chinese-derived elements in the Korean language)
- 漢韓詞 /汉韩词 noun (the Chinese-derived elements in the Korean language)
French
3 entries- sino-coréen adj (being both Chinese and Korean)
- sino-coréen adj (Etymologically from or influenced by Chinese)
- sino-coréen noun (the Chinese-derived elements in the Korean language)
German
1 entries- sino-koreanisch adj (being both Chinese and Korean)
Hindi
1 entries- चीन-कोरियाई adj (being both Chinese and Korean)
Ilocano
1 entries- Sino-Koreano adj (being both Chinese and Korean)
Italian
1 entries- sinocoreano adj (being both Chinese and Korean)
Japanese
2 entries- 中韓 adj (being both Chinese and Korean)
- 漢字語 adj (Etymologically from or influenced by Chinese)
Kapampangan
2 entries- Sinu-Koreanu adj (being both Chinese and Korean)
- Sino-Koreanu noun (the Chinese-derived elements in the Korean language)
Korean
2 entries- 한자어 adj (Etymologically from or influenced by Chinese)
- 한중 adj (being both Chinese and Korean)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Sino-Koreanesch adj (being both Chinese and Korean)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- sîno-koreyî adj (being both Chinese and Korean)
- sîno-koreyî noun (the Chinese-derived elements in the Korean language)
Russian
2 entries- кита́йско-коре́йский adj (being both Chinese and Korean)
- си́но-коре́йский adj (being both Chinese and Korean)
Spanish
1 entries- sinocoreano adj (being both Chinese and Korean)
Tagalog
2 entries- Sino-Koreano adj (being both Chinese and Korean)
- Sino-Koreano noun (the Chinese-derived elements in the Korean language)
Vietnamese
3 entries- Hán Hàn adj (being both Chinese and Korean)
- Hán Triều adj (being both Chinese and Korean)
- từ Hán Triều adj (Etymologically from or influenced by Chinese)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
the state of Sino-Korean relations
Source: wiktionary
Until the fifteenth century, Koreans had a native word for the numeral "hundred", but it has since been replaced by a Sino-Korean word.
Source: wiktionary
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.