10 English Words You Didn't Know Were Borrowed From Chinese

Words taken completely or in part from another language are known as loanwords.
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10 English Words You Didn't Know Were Borrowed From Chinese
A loanword is not the same as calque, which is an expression from one language that has been introduced into another language as a direct translation.
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