The Sinosphere is the Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area. The linguist James Matisoff coined the term "Sinosphere" in 1990, contrasting with the Indosphere... 1 KB (115 words) - 12:02, 11 November 2020 |
Look up Sinosphere in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The term Sinosphere usually refers to a cultural zone in East Asia and Southeast Asia that has been... 1,018 bytes (176 words) - 15:47, 18 April 2024 |
Asian regions. It is commonly used in areal linguistics in contrast with Sinosphere. The Tibeto-Burman family of languages, which extends over a huge geographic... 13 KB (1,361 words) - 14:52, 15 February 2024 |
Idolatry (section Chinese and Sinosphere Traditions) Idolatry is the worship of a cult image or "idol" as though it were a deity. In Abrahamic religions (namely Judaism, Samaritanism, Christianity, the Baháʼí... 125 KB (14,180 words) - 01:32, 9 April 2024 |
eventually adapted to write the local languages spoken throughout the Sinosphere. In Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, Chinese characters are known as... 140 KB (14,959 words) - 03:08, 30 April 2024 |
Lavender marriage (section In the Sinosphere) A lavender marriage is a male–female mixed-orientation marriage, undertaken as a marriage of convenience to conceal the socially stigmatised sexual orientation... 11 KB (1,366 words) - 03:45, 18 February 2024 |
Little China refers to a politico-cultural ideology and phenomenon in which various Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese regimes identified themselves as the... 31 KB (3,274 words) - 07:14, 26 April 2024 |
In the Sinosphere, the word 無, realized in Japanese and Korean as mu and in Standard Chinese as wu, meaning 'to lack' or 'without', is a key term in the... 18 KB (1,931 words) - 20:33, 14 April 2024 |
Temple names are posthumous titles accorded to monarchs of the Sinosphere for the purpose of ancestor worship. The practice of honoring monarchs with temple... 7 KB (858 words) - 17:07, 5 April 2024 |
elements of the modern Culture of Asia, especially in East Asia and the Sinosphere as well as in Southeast Asia and the Indosphere. According to Litian Fang... 246 KB (27,224 words) - 05:45, 23 April 2024 |
Dowager (section In Sinosphere) A dowager is a widow or widower who holds a title or property – a "dower" – derived from her or his deceased spouse. As an adjective, dowager usually appears... 5 KB (473 words) - 11:02, 3 March 2024 |
title of Chinese monarchs; and the superlative monarchical title in the Sinosphere Huangdi, Henan, a town in Huojia County, Henan, China Huangdi, Liaoning... 625 bytes (117 words) - 01:22, 11 November 2023 |
these creatures have been culturally important across countries in the Sinosphere. Depictions of mythological creatures clearly ancestral to the modern... 13 KB (1,296 words) - 17:43, 13 April 2024 |
History of printing (section In the Sinosphere) The history of printing starts as early as 3000 BCE, when the proto-Elamite and Sumerian civilizations used cylinder seals to certify documents written... 120 KB (15,716 words) - 18:34, 28 April 2024 |
March 2019. Jacobs, Andrew (3 June 2014). "Tiananmen's Most Wanted". Sinosphere, The New York Times. Archived from the original on 15 April 2018. Mann... 235 KB (25,229 words) - 08:44, 30 April 2024 |
Liu Xiaobo (section Sinosphere) Liu Xiaobo (Chinese: 刘晓波; pinyin: Liú Xiǎobō; 28 December 1955 – 13 July 2017) was a Chinese literary critic, human rights activist, philosopher and Nobel... 169 KB (15,441 words) - 04:04, 21 March 2024 |
Regnal year (section Sinosphere era names) monarch. As a result of Chinese cultural influence, other polities in the Sinosphere—Korea, Vietnam, Japan, and Ryukyu—also adopted the concept of era name... 20 KB (2,309 words) - 02:45, 13 April 2024 |
lit. "hundred years of national disgrace") is a term used among the Sinosphere to describe the period in Chinese history beginning with the First Opium... 25 KB (2,494 words) - 12:56, 29 April 2024 |
Regnal name (section Sinosphere) Vietnam to illustrate the differences between monarchical titles in the Sinosphere. Bold characters represent the most common way to refer to the monarchs... 37 KB (3,996 words) - 09:53, 7 April 2024 |
culture prevails across a large geographical region in East Asia with Sinosphere in whole and is extremely diverse, with customs and traditions varying... 117 KB (13,405 words) - 01:12, 1 May 2024 |
Seal (East Asia) (section Usage across the Sinosphere) A seal, in an East and Southeast Asian context, is a general name for printing stamps and impressions thereof which are used in lieu of signatures in personal... 66 KB (7,442 words) - 19:43, 29 March 2024 |
traditional wrapped-skirt and cross-collar clothing which is very popular in Sinosphere to be replaced by Qing and Ming-style clothing although isolated hamlets... 49 KB (6,139 words) - 11:29, 26 April 2024 |
Tianxia (section Usage in the Sinosphere) first millennium BC. Tianxia has been applied by other realms in the Sinosphere. The historical consensus is that a tianxia system existed at various... 21 KB (2,646 words) - 17:53, 17 April 2024 |