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  *回* | 回* | *回
to circle / to go back / to turn around / to answer / to return / to revolve / Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims) / time / classifier for acts of a play / section or chapter (of a classic book)
HSK 1
nationality; ethnic group / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
ethnic Chinese person or people
HSK 3
the Chinese nation / the Chinese people (collective reference to all the ethnic groups in China)
HSK 3
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *族* | 族* | *族
race / nationality / ethnicity / clan / by extension, social group (e.g. office workers 上班族)
HSK 6
race / ethnicity
HSK 7-9
ethnic Chinese / non-Chinese citizen of Chinese ancestry
HSK 7-9
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  *京* | 京* | *京
surname Jing / Jing ethnic minority / abbr. for Beijing 北京
many / multiple / multi- (faceted, ethnic etc)
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  *满* | 满* | *满
Manchu ethnic group
multi- (faceted, cultural, ethnic etc)
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  *蒙* | 蒙* | *蒙
Mongol ethnic group / abbr. for Mongolia 蒙古國|蒙古国 / Taiwan pr. [Meng2]
ethnic group / community
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  *黎* | 黎* | *黎
Li ethnic group of Hainan Province / surname Li / abbr. for Lebanon 黎巴嫩
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  *汉* | 汉* | *汉
Han ethnic group / Chinese (language) / the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)
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  *狄* | 狄* | *狄
surname Di / generic name for northern ethnic minorities during the Qin and Han Dynasties (221 BC-220 AD)
Hui ethnic group (Chinese muslims)
Nalan Xingde (1655-1685), Manchu ethnic Qing dynasty poet
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *僰* | 僰* | *僰
name of an ethnic group
Zhuang ethnic group of Guangxi, the PRC's second most numerous ethnic group
Uighur ethnic group of Xinjiang
traditional Han Chinese attire (including various styles of clothing worn by the Han ethnic group before the Qing Dynasty, and in the 21st century, revived as part of a cultural movement) / clothing styles of the Han dynasty
Tibetan ethnic group
Han ethnic group
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *土* | 土* | *土
Tu (ethnic group) / surname Tu
De'ang (ethnic group)
Manchu ethnic group of Liaoning province
Nakhi (ethnic group)
Yao ethnic group of southwest China and southeast Asia
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *壮* | 壮* | *壮
Zhuang ethnic group of Guangxi, the PRC's second most numerous ethnic group
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *彝* | 彝* | *彝
Yi ethnic group
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  *苗* | 苗* | *苗
Hmong or Miao ethnic group of southwest China / surname Miao
Dongxiang or East village (place name) / Donxiang (ethnic group) / Dongxiang County in Fuzhou 撫州|抚州, Jiangxi
to inhabit a region (esp. ethnic group) / to congregate
Yi ethnic group
clansman / clan members / relatives / ethnic minority
Qiang ethnic group, nowadays esp. in north Sichuan
Li ethnic group
Buyei ethnic group
Hui Islamic ethnic group living across China
Tatar ethnic group of Xinjiang
She ethnic group
Hmong or Miao ethnic group of southwest China
Qidan or Khitan, ethnic group in ancient China, a branch of the Eastern Hu people inhabiting the valley of the Xar Murun River in the upper reaches of the Liao River 遼河|辽河
Shakya, an ethnicity and clan of the northeast of South Asia to which the Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) belonged / the Buddha (abbr. for 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼, Shakyamuni, which means "the Sage of the Shakyas")
Jurchen, a Tungus ethnic group, predecessor of the Manchu ethnic group who founded the Later Jin Dynasty 後金|后金 and Qing Dynasty
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *傣* | 傣* | *傣
Dai (ethnic group)
Jingpo ethnic group of Tibet and Yunnan
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *翟* | 翟* | *翟
surname Di / variant of , generic name for northern ethnic minorities during the Qin and Han Dynasties (221 BC-220 AD)
Oroqen or Orochon (ethnic group)
Tajik; (esp.) Tajik ethnic group in Xinjiang / (Tw, HK) Tajikistan
(old) the Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims); a Hui person
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *畲* | 畲* | *畲
She ethnic group
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *佤* | 佤* | *佤
Wa, Kawa or Va ethnic group of Myanmar, south China and southeast Asia
Kyrghiz ethnic group of Xinjiang
waist drum / waist-drum dance (Han ethnic group folk dance)
Salar ethnic group of Qinghai province
Bai (ethnic group)
abbr. for 維吾爾族|维吾尔族, Uighur (Uyghur) ethnic group of Xinjiang
Lisu ethnic group of Yunnan
Wa, Kawa or Va ethnic group of Myanmar, south China and southeast Asia
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *羌* | 羌* | *羌
Qiang ethnic group of northwestern Sichuan / surname Qiang
ethnic group
baby / small child / (arch.) slave among ethnic minorities
Hakka ethnic group, a subgroup of the Han that in the 13th century migrated from northern China to the south
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  *俚* | 俚* | *俚
old name for the ethnic group
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  *佧* | 佧* | *佧
ancient name for an ethnic group in China
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  *侗* | 侗* | *侗
Dong ethnic group (aka Kam people)
Daur ethnic group of Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang
Xibo ethnic group of northeast China
(lit.) leftover men / (fig.) loyalist adherents of a former dynasty / surviving members of an ethnic group
Huihu, ancient name of an ethnic group who were the ancestors of the Uyghurs 維吾爾族|维吾尔族 and the Yugurs 裕固族
Tu or White Mongol ethnic group of Qinghai
the Xirong, an ancient ethnic group of Western China from the Zhou Dynasty onwards / Xionites (Central Asian nomads)
Drung or Dulong ethnic group of northwest Yunnan
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *幏* | 幏* | *幏
cloth (archaic), esp. of southern ethnic groups
Yugur ethnic group of Gansu
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *仡* | 仡* | *仡
used in 仡佬族, Gelao or Klau ethnic group of Guizhou / Taiwan pr. [qi4]
Mosuo ethnic group of Yunnan and Sichuan
Mulao ethnic group of Guangxi
Tartar (various northern tribes in ancient China) / Tatar (Turkic ethnic group in central Asia)
Tangut branch of the Qiang ethnic group / ancient ethnic group who made up the Xixia dynasty 西夏 1038-1227
Eastern barbarian / ancient ethnic group of northeast frontier of China
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *僳* | 僳* | *僳
Lisu ethnic group of Yunnan
Gin or Jing, ethnic minority of China, descendants of ethnic Vietnamese people living mainly in Guangxi / Kinh, the ethnic majority in Vietnam
Nu ethnic group
a Han family name (surname) / (esp.) a Han surname adopted by a person of another ethnic group
Achang also called Ngac'ang or Maingtha (ethnic group)
Huihe, ancient name of an ethnic group who were the ancestors of the Uyghurs 維吾爾族|维吾尔族 and the Yugurs 裕固族
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *僮* | 僮* | *僮
old variant of 壯|壮, Zhuang ethnic group of Guangxi
Balochi (ethnic group of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *霫* | 霫* | *霫
Sui-Tang (premodern ethnic group)
Quanrong, Zhou Dynasty ethnic group of present-day western China
minka / commoner's house / Bai ethnic group
Serb nationality / ethnic Serb / Serbs
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *僜* | 僜* | *僜
Deng ethnic minority of Tibet
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  *仫* | 仫* | *仫
used in 仫佬族, Mulao ethnic group of Guangxi
Genesis (first book of the Bible) / the Creation, an epic poem of the Naxi 納西|纳西 ethnic group
Emishi or Ebisu, ethnic group of ancient Japan, thought to be related to modern Ainus
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *獞* | 獞* | *獞
old variant of 壯|壮, Zhuang ethnic group of Guangxi

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