Etymology

Sino-Japanese

Today it means: Involving both China and Japan, for example the First Sino-Japanese War, or Sino-Japanese vocabulary Full definition →

English Japanese ← Dutch Japan ← Malay Jepang
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The story

  1. EnglishSino-
  2. Hokkien日本 (Ji̍t-pún)
  3. MalayJepang
  4. PortugueseJapão
  5. MalayJepang
  6. DutchJapan
  7. EnglishJapan
  8. EnglishJapanese
  9. English todaySino-Japanese

From Sino- + Japanese.

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