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    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...
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    In the Sinosphere, seals (stamps) can be applied on objects to establish personal identification. They are commonly applied on items such as personal documents...
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  • The Sinosphere is the Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area. The linguist James Matisoff coined the term "Sinosphere" in 1990, contrasting with the Indosphere...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    characters were often adapted to write local languages spoken throughout the Sinosphere. In Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, Chinese characters are known as...
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  • title of Chinese monarchs; and the superlative monarchical title in the Sinosphere Huangdi, Henan, a town in Huojia County, Henan, China Huangdi, Liaoning...
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    by its combination with the sexagenary cycle—had spread throughout the Sinosphere. Japan eliminated their version of this system as part of the Meiji Reforms...
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  • Sinophone languages of the Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area of the Sinosphere. Notably, unlike terms such as Lusophone or Francophone that refer to...
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    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...
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