Sinophonic

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adjective

Pertaining to Chinese languages and speakers of Chinese.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectiveSinophonic (not comparable)
  1. not comparablePertaining to Chinese languages and speakers of Chinese.

    Fan-audiences' Sinophonic dissonance in real life was harmonized and smoothed over in this virtual enclave by the fans' unwavering love for their idol.

    2015, Ruby Cheung, New Hong Kong Cinema, →ISBN
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    This particular interpretation of the Shaw Brothers' “Chinese dream” as strategic—both commercial and ideological—reinvention is why, in this chapter, I frame the Shaw Brothers' cinema as a Sinophonic rather than a diasporic production.

    2013, Howard Chiang, Ari Larissa Heinrich, Queer Sinophone Cultures, →ISBN, page 86

    Overall, this article attempts to call for attention to the intellectual and practical importance of the study of Chinese politics in China's nation-building, identity search, and modernity, and to stimulate the discussion of the state of this scholarship for the purpose of developing the study of Chinese politics in the Sinophonic world.

    2015, Wu Guoguang, Paradoxes Of China's Prosperity, →ISBN

    Taken as an integral cinematic experience, what we are seeing is, in one way, a brief episode from the everyday life of a Singaporean family conversing in a hybridized Sinophonic tongue and, in another way, fictitious life stories being received visually and aurally by a Siniticate community of people who are being affected by the acts and speech-acts on screen.

    2015, Brian Bergen-Aurand, Mary Mazzilli, Hee Wai-Siam, Transnational Chinese Cinema, →ISBN

Origin

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APA

Sinophonic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sinophonic

MLA

“Sinophonic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sinophonic. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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