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English
Alternative forms
Adjective
Han Chinese (not comparable)
- Referring to the largest ethnic group native to China.
2007 April, Julie Grundvig, “TAIWAN”, in The Asia Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the Continent, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 103, column 2:About 98 per cent of Taiwan's inhabitants are Han Chinese, a diverse mix of ethnic and linguistic groups, including Hakka, Cantonese and Fujianese, who came from China's southern coast. Taiwan's other two per cent are from one of the nine indigenous tribes, which are scattered throughout the island but largely concentrated along the east coast and in the Central Mountain Range.
Translations
referring to the largest ethnic group indigenous to China
Noun
Han Chinese pl (plural only)
- The largest ethnic group native to China.
2007, Marcus W. Feldman, Shripad Tuljapurkar, Shuzhuo Li, Xiaoyi Jin, Nan Li, “Son Preference, Marriage, and Intergenerational Transfer in Rural China”, in Anne H. Gauthier, C.Y. Cyrus Chu, Shripad Tuljapurkar, editors, Allocating Public and Private Resources across Generations: Riding the Age Waves, volume 2, Springer, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 144:Lueyang county is a mountainous county located in the Qing mountains in the far south of Shaanxi province, far from Xi'an, on the borders of Sichuan and Gansu provinces. It has a relatively small population—about 200,000. Before the Tang dynasty, Lueyang was occupied mostly by minority Chinese, who were defeated by the Han Chinese, and most were forced to migrate to other places.
Translations
the largest ethnic group native to China
- Burmese: ဟန်လူမျိုး (hanlu-myui:)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 漢族/汉族 (hon3 zuk6), 漢人/汉人 (hon3 jan4)
- Dungan: ханзў (hanzw), ханжын (hanřɨn), ханзўжын (hanzwřɨn)
- Mandarin: 漢族/汉族 (zh) (hànzú), 漢人/汉人 (zh) (hànrén)
- Danish: hankineser c
- Finnish: han-kiinalaiset pl
- Hindi: हान चीनी (hān cīnī)
- Hlai: Moei
- Indonesian: suku Han
- Japanese: 漢民族 (かんみんぞく, kanminzoku), 漢族 (かんぞく, kanzoku), 漢人 (ja) (かんじん, kanjin)
- Kazakh: қытай (qytai), ханзу (xanzu)
- Khmer: ហានប្រទេសចិន (haan prɑteeh cən)
- Korean: 한족 (ko) (hanjok), 한인 (ko) (hanin) (can also mean Korean)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latvian: haņi m pl
- Malay: please add this translation if you can
- Manchu: ᠨᡳᡴᠠᠨ
ᡠᡴᠰᡠᡵᠠ (nikan uksura)
- Mongolian: хятад үндэстэн (xjatad ündesten)
- Portuguese: han (pt) m pl, hans m pl
- Russian: кита́ец (ru) m (kitájec), китая́нка (ru) f (kitajánka), ха́нец (ru) m (xánec), ха́нька f (xánʹka), хань (ru) m or f (xanʹ) (usually collective)
- Tagalog: tsinong Han
- Thai: ชาวฮั่น (chaao hân)
- Tibetan: རྒྱ་མི། (rgya mi)
- Uyghur: خەنزۇ (ug) (xenzu)
- Vietnamese: người Hán (𠊛漢)
- Wutunhua: ha
- Zhuang: Bouxgun
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