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Chinese
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the people; nationality; citizen
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race; nationality; ethnicity race; nationality; ethnicity; clan
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trad. (民族)
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民
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simp. #(民族)
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民
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Etymology
First attested in a 5th-century essay by Gu Huan (顧歡), which is reproduced in the 6th-century Book of Southern Qi (translation from Mather, 2005):
今諸華士女,民族弗革,而露首偏踞,濫用夷禮,云於翦落之徒,全是胡人,國有舊風,法不可變。
今诸华士女,民族弗革,而露首偏踞,滥用夷礼,云于翦落之徒,全是胡人,国有旧风,法不可变。 - From: The Book of Southern Qi, by Xiao Zixian, 6th century CE
- Jīn zhūhuá shìnǚ, mínzú fú gé, ér lù shǒu piān jù, lànyòng Yí lǐ, yún yú jiǎnluò zhī tú, quán shì Húrén, guó yǒu jiù fēng, fǎ bùkě biàn.
- Today all the Chinese gentlemen and ladies, as well as the common people, have not changed , but they insist on squatting with exposed heads, wantonly using the manners of the Yi Barbarians. They talk to the shorn-headed crowd, all of them Hu Barbarians. The state has its own long-standing mores; its laws are not to be altered.
According to Ru (2001), 民族's early meaning was closer to 民眾 (“the general populace”).
Pronunciation
Noun
民族
- people; nation; nationality; ethnic group; minority; ethnos (Classifier: 個/个)
- 民族宗教 ― mínzú zōngjiào ― ethnoreligious
- 民族政治 ― mínzú zhèngzhì ― ethnopolitical
- 民族大融合 ― mínzú dà rónghé ― major ethnic assimilation
- 民族區域自治區/民族区域自治区 ― mínzú qūyù zìzhìqū ― ethnic autonomous regions
- short for 少數民族/少数民族 (shǎoshù mínzú, “ethnic minority”)
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Proper noun
民族
- (~街道) Minzu (a subdistrict of Jianghan district, Wuhan, Hubei, China)
References
- ^ Richard Mather (2005) “Buddhism and Indigenous Chinese Culture”, in Victor H. Mair, Nancy S. Steinhardt, & Paul R. Goldin, editors, Hawai‘i Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture, page 274
- ^ 茹莹 (2001) “汉语"民族"一词在我国的最早出现 ”, in 世界民族 (in Chinese), number 6, page 1
Further reading
Japanese
Pronunciation
Noun
民族 • (minzoku)
- people, race, ethnic group - people that have a common culture, common customs, etc.
References
- 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
Korean
Noun
民族 • (minjok) (hangeul 민족)
- hanja form? of 민족 (“an ethnicity”)
Vietnamese
Noun
民族
- chữ Hán form of dân tộc (“ethnic group, nationality, race”)