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Sinitic

Sinitic meaning

Of or pertaining to Chinese languages | Of or pertaining to China or the Chinese peoples

Example sentences (2)

The name does appear somewhat further east than the Achaemenid Empire, as the Chinese knew the Asian Scythians as Sai ( Chinese character : 塞, Old Sinitic *sək).

While Song did not himself actually create a system for spelling Sinitic languages, his discussion proved fertile and led to a proliferation of schemes for phonetic scripts.