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What does sinicize mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word sinicize? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) to make something Chinese in form or character, or to increase the Chinese influence on something.
  2. (transitive) to convert to Chinese characters or to enable to work with the Chinese script.
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Kublai renamed the Mongol regime in China Dai Yuan in 1271, and sought to sinicize his image as Emperor of China in order to win control of millions of Chinese people.
In 1271, Kublai renamed the new Mongol regime in China as the Yuan dynasty and sought to sinicize his image as Emperor of China to win the control of the Chinese people.
Texts like the Mingxiang ji also helped Sinicize Buddhism by blending situations and conditions familiar to the Chinese with the unfamiliarity of Buddhist belief and practice.
At the very least, they acknowledge a need to Sinicize outside ideas.
Lhakar has reversed five decades of China's campaign to sinicize Tibetan culture.

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