Adjective
Sino-Xenic (not comparable)
(linguistics) Related to pronunciations for reading Chinese in Japan, Korea and Vietnam, originating in medieval times and the source of large-scale borrowings of Chinese words into Japonic, Koreanic and Vietnamese languages, none of which are genetically related to Chinese (excluding Sinitic topolects).
Example: the Chinese term 歷史／历史 (lìshǐ, “history”) has the following Sino-Xenic descendants: