Sinico-Japanese

noun

Sin·​i·​co-Japanese

¦sinə̇ˌkō-,

-nēˌkō-

1

: Chinese as adapted and used in Japanese

2

: a style of writing in Japanese modeled on the Chinese classics and containing many Chinese words and idioms

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