ABSTRACT
Loanwords are called wàiláicí 外来词 (words from foreign languages) or jiècí 借词 (loan words) in Chinese. In the history of loanword studies on Chinese, various other terms have been proposed, for example, yìyǔ 译语 (translated expressions), yìmíng 译名 (translated terms), wàiláiyǔ 外来语 (expressions from foreign languages), jièyǔ 借语 (loan expressions), and jièzì 借字 (loan characters) (e.g. Masini 1993: 129-30; Yeung 2005: 8-38; Shi 2013: 13-18). At present, wàiláicí and jiècí are the most commonly used.
