Sinicismn.
/ˈsɪnᵻsɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈsɪnəˌsɪzəm/ 1. Support for or adoption of characteristically Chinese customs, ideas, or principles; Chinese influence; an instance or example of this.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > the Chinese > [noun] > quality or character
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1842 Biblical Repertory Jan. 140 It is just the same with Sinicism in religious matters.
1899 Eng. Hist. Rev. Apr. 228 The reference is a mere sinicism. Even cowry shells, commonly used in early China as currency, were never so employed in Japan.
1923 Sewanee Rev. 31 331 The first dawn of Japanese literature is, therefore, strongly tinged with Sinicism.
1995 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 54 982 An essential component of the wet rice specialization, the rice village, was thoroughly indigenous and deeply hostile to the state's Sinicism.
2. A Chinese word, phrase, or idiom borrowed into, or introduced into a sentence in, another language.
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1885 Times 28 Dec. 11/4 The Japanese language, in itself a plastic form of speech, may gradually shed its excess of sinicisms.
1916 T'oung Pao 17 445 Some Sinicisms in Tibetan appear to be of comparatively ancient date.
2019 @Durf 4 Oct. in twitter.com (accessed 20 Aug. 2020) Just waiting for the ideal time to pop in and complain about the Sinicisms infecting Yamato-kotoba proper.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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