sinography

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noun

Diagnostic imaging of the sinus.

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Meanings

sinography1

nounsinography (uncountable)
  1. uncountableDiagnostic imaging of the sinus.

sinography2

nounsinography (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe writing system of Chinese and various East Asian languages.

    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.

    2003, Marc Hideo Miyake, Old Japanese: A Phonetic Reconstruction, →ISBN

Origin

sinography · noun

From sino- + -graphy.

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sinography · noun

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

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APA

sinography. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sinography

MLA

“sinography.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sinography. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sinography,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sinography.

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