boxes, or other symbols instead of chữ Nôm, chữ Hán and chữ Quốc ngữ. The Sinosphere, also known as the Chinese cultural sphere, East Asian cultural sphere...

The Sinosphere is the Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area. The linguist James Matisoff coined the term "Sinosphere" in 1990, contrasting with the Indosphere...

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...

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...

eventually adapted to write the local languages spoken throughout the Sinosphere. In Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, Chinese characters are known as...

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...

A lavender marriage is a male–female mixed-orientation marriage, undertaken as a marriage of convenience to conceal the socially stigmatised sexual orientation...

Temple names are posthumous titles accorded to monarchs of the Sinosphere for the purpose of ancestor worship. The practice of honoring monarchs with temple...

Little China refers to a politico-cultural ideology and phenomenon in which various Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese regimes identified themselves as the...

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...

title of Chinese monarchs; and the superlative monarchical title in the Sinosphere Huangdi, Henan, a town in Huojia County, Henan, China Huangdi, Liaoning...

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...

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...

the above-mentioned languages. Vietnamese culture is considered part of Sinosphere. Vietnam's culture has developed over the centuries from indigenous ancient...

these creatures have been culturally important across countries in the Sinosphere. Depictions of mythological creatures clearly ancestral to the modern...

first millennium BC. Tianxia has been applied by other realms in the Sinosphere. The historical consensus is that a tianxia system existed at various...

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...

The history of printing starts as early as 3000 BCE, when the proto-Elamite and Sumerian civilizations used cylinder seals to certify documents written...

Ferlus work is based on simple rules of phonetic change observable in the Sinosphere and studied for the most part by William H. Baxter (1992). "Ayutthaya...

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...

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...

Vietnam to illustrate the differences between monarchical titles in the Sinosphere. Bold characters represent the most common way to refer to the monarchs...

Japanese Korean Taiwanese Blepharoplasty Buddhism Calligraphy Cinema Cuisine Sinosphere Dance Chinese knotting Chinese dragon Festivals Gardens Chinese characters...

China, during the reign of the Emperor Wu of Han. As elsewhere in the Sinosphere, the use of era names was originally derived from Chinese imperial practice...

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...

(die-da), exercise (qigong), and dietary therapy. TCM is widely used in the Sinosphere. One of the basic tenets is that the body's qi is circulating through...

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...

culture prevails across a large geographical region in East Asia with Sinosphere in whole and is extremely diverse, with customs and traditions varying...

variants of the Chinese calendar have been used in different parts of the Sinosphere throughout history: this includes Vietnam, Korea, Singapore, Japan and...

writing. Recently, the silent illumination method was revived in the Sinosphere by Sheng Yen and his Dharma Drum Mountain association. Sōtō is the Japanese...