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A loose calque from Chinese 國語羅馬字/国语罗马字 (Guóyǔ Luómǎzì, literally “romanization of the national language”).
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A loose calque from Chinese 國語羅馬字/国语罗马字 (Guóyǔ Luómǎzì, literally “romanization of the national language”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.