chinese loanwords are loanwords borrowed into non-chinese languages, especially east asian languages. since china introduced writing to the japanese, korean, and vietnamese languages, each language had also borrowed many chinese loanwords. since all the languages have very different sound systems from each other, they all have different systems for pronouncing chinese loanwords (though there are many words that sound similar to each other). these are called sino-xenic pronunciations. these are similar to how loanwords from latin and french sound differently when spoken in english.