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五胡

Mandarin · pinyin Wǔ hú

Five non-Han people, namely: Huns or Xiongnu 匈奴 Xiōng nú, Xianbei 鮮卑 Xiān bēi, Jie 羯 Jié, Di 氐 Dī, Qiang 羌 Qiāng, esp. in connection with the Sixteen Kingdoms 304-439 五胡十六國 Wǔ hú Shí liù guó

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五: wǔ · five; surname
胡: hú · recklessly, foolishly; wildly

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the Five Barbarians (the ethnic groups Xiongnu (匈奴), Xianbei (鮮卑), Di (氐), Qiang (羌), Jie (羯), regarded as barbarians by the Chinese)

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