sinography
English
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editsinography (uncountable)
- Diagnostic imaging of the sinus.
Etymology 2
editBy surface analysis, sino- (“China, Chinese”) + -graphy (“something written”).
Noun
editsinography (uncountable)
- Chinese writing.
- 2003, Marc Hideo Miyake, Old Japanese: A Phonetic Reconstruction, →ISBN:
- Since sinography (Chinese writing) is language-specific and, in turn, individual sinographs are morpheme-specific, scribes in early Japan faced tremendous problems in adapting sinography to Japanese.