Sinologist vs scholarly person

Sinologist and scholarly person both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Sinologist	Yes	No	No	No
scholarly person	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, scholarly person is a hypernym of Sinologist; that is, scholarly person is a word with a broader meaning than Sinologist:

Sinologist: a student of Chinese history and language and culture
scholarly person: a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines

Other hypernyms of Sinologist include bookman, scholar.

Sinologist (noun)	scholarly person (noun)
a student of Chinese history and language and culture	a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines