Sino-Japanese

Sino-Japanese

Sino-Japanese is often used to mean:

* Sino-Japanese vocabulary: That portion of the Japanese vocabulary that is of Chinese origin or makes use of morphemes of Chinese origin (similar to the use of Latin/Greek in English).
* Kanbun: A Japanese method of reading annotated Classical Chinese in translation; writing with literary Chinese for Japanese readers.
* The "on'yomi" or 'Chinese reading' of Chinese characters in Japanese.

"Sino-Japanese" is also used to refer to that which occurs between China and Japan, such as:

* The First Sino-Japanese War between 1894 and 1895, primarily over control of Korea.
* The Second Sino-Japanese War between 1931 and 1945, from 1941 on as part of World War II.
* Sino-Japanese relations. (See also Sino-Japanese relations (1931-1937).)
* Sino-Japanese Journalist Exchange Agreement
* Chinese in Japan
* Japanese Chinese cuisine, the style of Chinese cuisine served by Chinese in Japan
* Japanese people settled in China, and/or their descendants
* Japanese orphans in China
* People of mixed Chinese and Japanese descent


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