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Hui
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Appendix:Variations of "hui"
English
+ people
Pronunciation
(from Mandarin): hwā
Etymology 1
Borrowed from en cmn ^回.
Noun
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An ethnic group of China, distinguished by their practice of Islam, who speak Mandarin (or Dungan in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Russia).
en 1978 November 16 October 1978 Religious Life Never Interfered With Eastern Horizon https://archive.org/details/sim_eastern-horizon_1978-11_17_11/ XVII 11 Hong Kong Eastern Horizon Press 0012-8813 751117974 16 https://archive.org/details/sim_eastern-horizon_1978-11_17_11/page/16/ In Hui restaurants in towns such as Wuchung and Chungning, restaurant workers wearing the white caps of the Hui nationality serve customers. Most government institutions, factories and schools in different parts of the autonomous region have set up dining rooms for the Huis, where their special foods are served.
en 2002 w:Dru C. Gladney Ethnoreligious Resurgence in a Northwestern Sufi Community Susan D. Blum; w:Lionel M. Jensen China Off Center: Mapping the Margins of the Middle Kingdom https://archive.org/details/chinaoffcenterma0000unse/ Honolulu w:University of Hawaiʻi Press 0-8248-2335-4 2002002101 760388376 109 https://archive.org/details/chinaoffcenterma0000unse/page/109/ This compact collection of households comprises nine teams that are almost 100 percent Hui, a rarity in central and northern Ningxia, where Hui are thinly distributed among the majority Han population. Yongning county is only 12.9 percent Hui, a relatively small minority in contrast to neighboring Lingwu county in the southeast, which is 47 percent Hui, and southern Jingyuan county, which is 97 percent Hui (the highest concentration of Hui in one county in China).
en 11 May 2020 Ligaya Mishan Eating in Xi’an, Where Wheat and Lamb Speak to China’s Varied Palette https://web.archive.org/web/20200511131108/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/t-magazine/xian-china-food.html 11 May 2020 w:The New York Times Within Xi’an, Hui and Han alike eat roujiamo, the Chinese hamburger: meat tucked into flatbread that’s been crisped on the grill until it shows tiger skin on one side — shades of orange and black — and a chrysanthemum whorl on the other. The Han make it with long-braised pork, doused with a spoonful of its own broth, and the Hui with beef or lamb, stewed, then salted and dried.
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Translations
people
Arabic: ar هُوَي m
Burmese: my ပန်းသေးလူမျိုး, my ပန်းသေး
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 回族 wui4 zuk6
Dungan: dng хуэйзў, dng хуэйзўжын
Mandarin: cmn 回族 huízú
Japanese: ja 回族 かいぞく, kaizoku, ja ホイ族 hoizoku
Kazakh: kk дүнген
Korean: ko 후이족, ko 회족(回族)
Mongolian: mn Хотон үндэстэн, mn Хуй үндэстэн
Persian: fa هوئی
Russian: ru хуэйцзу́ m-p, ru хуэ́й m
Tibetan: bo
Uyghur: ug خۇيزۇ
Vietnamese: vi người Hồi (vi 𠊛回)
Xibe: sjo ᡥᠣᡞᡯᡠ ᡠᡣᠰᡠᠷᠠ hoidzu uksura
Zhuang: za Veizcuz
See also
en Dungan
en hui
en Islam
Etymology 2
Borrowed from en cmn ^徽.
Proper noun
A Chinese lect spoken in Southern Anhui and neighbouring Zhejiang and Jiangxi.
Synonyms
en Huizhou
Translations
dialect
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 徽州話 fai1 zau1 waa6-2, yue 徽語 fai1 jyu5
Mandarin: cmn 徽州話 Huīzhōuhuà, cmn 徽語 Huīyǔ
French: fr hui m
Russian: ru хой m
Etymology 3
Borrowed from en cmn ^惠, cmn ^回, or en yue - 許 heoi2.
Proper noun
en Chinese.
Statistics
According to the 2010 United States Census, Hui is the 5966th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 5769 individuals. Hui is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (93.5%) individuals.
Anagrams
en hiu UHI
en Chinese Languages Ethnicity
East Central German
Noun
gmw-ecg noun m
gmw-ecg Erzgebirgisch quirk odd behaviour of someone
gmw-ecg Husch
gmw-ecg enn Hui hamm to have a quirk
Further reading
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