中華民族
简 中华民族 · 繁 中華民族Meanings
- the Chinese nation
- the Chinese people (collective reference to all the ethnic groups in China)
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1–2–2–2 · Zhong1 hua2 min2 zu2
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zung1 waa4 man4 zuk6
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- the Chinese nation; the Chinese ethnic peoples (a supra-ethnic concept of a Chinese nationality, which includes the Han Chinese as well as the Zhuang, Tibetans, and other established ethnic groups who have lived within the borders of China since at least the Qing dynasty, 1644–1911)
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