单词 | sinify |
释义 | sinifyv. 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. sinicize v. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > the Chinese > [verb (transitive)] sinicize1880 sinify1888 1888 China Rev. 16 No. 6. 384/1 The rest of the world will be in danger of being overrun by Chinese and eventually sinified. 1966 Economist 1 Oct. 58/1 But he [sc. Mao] did not sinify the basic philosophical principles of Marxism. 1977 Times 12 Oct. (China Suppl.) p. vii/7 The central Government has often been accused of ‘sinifying’ the minority nationality areas of China. 1979 Jrnl. Chinese Linguistics 7 254 What use is made of the meaning-conveying resources of the script when foreign terms are sinified? 2013 Asian Surv. 53 241 It [sc. Kuomintang nationalities policy] was premised on sinifying all of what had once been the Manchu Qing Empire. Derivatives ˈsinified adj. ΚΠ 1900 Spectator 15 Sept. 330/1 The European who becomes Sinified is a degraded being. 1979 Jrnl. Chinese Linguistics 7 246 The present paper aims to show that the study of sinified names, personal and commercial as well as geographic, can reveal certain interesting facts about the Chinese script. 2014 Hist. & Theory 53 266 (note) Unlike sinified Christian or Buddhist traditions, other Chinese religious traditions see no merit in suffering. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1888 |
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