Sino-Xenic vocabularies

Sino-xenic vocabularies are words formed by mixing Chinese and foreign (not Chinese) words. For example, a sino-xenic word could be "haipai" (海派), which mixes the Chinese word "hai" (海, meaning ocean or sea) and the English word "style" (派, meaning style). Together, "haipai" means "a style originating from the ocean". Sino-xenic vocabularies are becoming increasingly common in modern Chinese language.