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Irish Born Chinese

The word "sino"

Created Saturday, 24th September 2005, 14:55 by whykay
(NOTE: This is a migrated article from the old IBC blog)

I have noticed the word sino used in many articles. I sometimes use it (not alot), and I have always wondered how on earth does the word sino relate to anything Chinese? I suppose, the easy way to find out is to do a search in the dictionary… meaning from Oxford dictionary

combining form Chinese; Chinese : Sino-American. —ORIGIN from Latin Sinae, from Arabic.

Wikipedia did not help here…. it only redirected me to China!