单词 | sinicize |
释义 | sinicizev. transitive. To make (someone or something) Chinese in character or form; to bring under the cultural, economic, or political influence of China. Also: to borrow (a word, phrase, etc.) into Chinese; to render (a foreign word) in Chinese characters. Cf. sinify v., earlier sinicized adj. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > the Chinese > [verb (transitive)] sinicize1880 sinify1888 1880 T. Fergusson Chinese Res. iii. 229 There is a further curious similitude in the term..which would naturally have been Sinicised without a final consonant. 1904 Athenæum 22 Oct. 547/3 Japan was never really sinicized, and what was best in China never became hers. 1992 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Dec. 3/4 The twin policies if i-i chi-i..and chi-mi..were designed to sinicize intruders and draw them into the Confucian system. 2017 H. Langenkamp in Y. Hon-Lun & M. Saffle China & West 257 Beijing's investment in (in)tangible cultural heritages continues a long-standing strategy of ‘folklorizing’ and sinicizing non-Han traditions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1880 |
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