Han Chinese

English

Adjective

Han Chinese (not comparable)

  1. Referring to the largest ethnic group indigenous to China.
    • 2007 April, Grundvig, Julie, “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.

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Noun

Han Chinese pl (plural only)

  1. The largest ethnic group indigenous to China.

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