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Chinese_studies

Chinese studies

English

Noun

Chinese studies ‎(uncountable)

(humanities) An academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the Chinese language, Chinese linguistics, and Chinese sociolinguistics.

Synonyms

sinology

Translations

study of China

Chinese:
Mandarin: 漢學 (zh), 汉学 (zh) ‎(hànxué), 中國學 (zh), 中国学 (zh) ‎(zhōngguóxué), 國學 (zh), 国学 (zh) ‎(guóxué)
Czech: sinologie (cs) f
Finnish: sinologia (fi)
French: sinologie (fr) f
German: Sinologie (de) f, Chinakunde f, Chinastudien n pl, Chinawissenschaften f pl
Hungarian: sinológia (hu)

Indonesian: sinologi (id)
Italian: sinologia (it) f
Japanese: 漢学 ‎(かんがく, kangaku), 中国学 ‎(ちゅうごくがく, chūgokugaku)
Korean: 한학 (ko) ‎(hanhak) (漢學 (ko)), 중국학 (ko) ‎(junggukhak) (中國學 (ko))
Malay: kaji Cina, sinologi
Portuguese: sinologia f
Russian: синоло́гия (ru) f ‎(sinológija), китаеве́дение (ru) n ‎(kitajevédenije), китаи́стика (ru) f ‎(kitaístika)
Spanish: sinología f
Vietnamese: Hán học (vi) (漢學), Trung Quốc học (中國學)