sinography

English

Etymology 1

sino- +‎ -graphy

Noun

sinography (uncountable)

1. Diagnostic imaging of the sinus.

Etymology 2

By surface analysis, sino- (“China, Chinese”) +‎ -graphy (“something written”).

Noun

sinography (uncountable)

1. 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.

Related terms

• sinograph