Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to sinology.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Relating to the Chinese language, literature or culture.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to sinology.

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Examples

  • You beat me on Japanese as well: so far, all I can do is read sinological works, as long as I have a good grammar near to me and there are enough kanji and direct quotes from Chinese that I don't get lost in the "purely Japanese" stuff.

    languagehat.com: TIDAL WAVE. 2004

  • Schriftfestschrift: Essays in Honor of John DeFrancis on His Eightieth Birthday issue of the Sino-Platonic Papers, in which DeFrancis 'friends and colleagues - the Tabula Gratulatoria is a veritable Who's Who of the sinological field - write, with admiration and genuine affection, a collection of essays that anyone would be proud to have dedicated to them.

    bokane.org 2009

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