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nationality; ethnic group / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
the Chinese nation / the Chinese people (collective reference to all the ethnic groups in China)
HSK 3
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  *族* | 族* | *族
race / nationality / ethnicity / clan / by extension, social group (e.g. office workers 上班族)
HSK 6
family / clan
HSK 7-9
race / ethnicity
HSK 7-9
lord / nobility / nobleman / noblewoman / aristocrat / aristocracy
HSK 7-9
office workers (as social group)
tribe; clan
Zhuang ethnic group of Guangxi, the PRC's second most numerous ethnic group
Tibetan ethnic group
Han ethnic group
Manchu ethnic group of Liaoning province
Yao ethnic group of southwest China and southeast Asia
clan
Yi ethnic group
social group / subculture / family / clan / see also
Kam people, who live mostly in southern China and in the north of Laos and Vietnam
blood relations / one's own flesh and blood / kin
the imperial family / royal kin
Qiang ethnic group, nowadays esp. in north Sichuan
Li ethnic group
Hui Islamic ethnic group living across China
large and influential family / clan
She ethnic group
Hmong or Miao ethnic group of southwest China
different tribe
Bai (ethnic group)
abbr. for 維吾爾族|维吾尔族, Uighur (Uyghur) ethnic group of Xinjiang
Wa, Kawa or Va ethnic group of Myanmar, south China and southeast Asia
extermination of an entire family (ancient Chinese punishment)
distinguished or prominent family / influential clan (old)
clan / clansman
relatives / members of the same family, clan, tribe etc
offspring a famous family (idiom); good breeding / blue blood
people who go on walks for exercise / (Tw) rebel youth motorcycle group
Tu or White Mongol ethnic group of Qinghai
language branch
noble family / of Chinese ancestry
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
the Semites
Serb nationality / ethnic Serb / Serbs
"ant tribe", college graduates who endure cramped living conditions while trying to develop a career
Atayal or Tayal, one of the indigenous ethnic groups of Taiwan
subfamily
the bereaved / family of the deceased
smartphone addicts
land-owning class, esp. during Wei, Jin and North-South dynasties 魏晉南北朝|魏晋南北朝
Lisu ethnic group of Yunnan
fig. unmarried person / single person (especially one who is comfortable financially)
influential family / powerful clan
birds
Hominini
old term for 壯族|壮族, Zhuang ethnic group of Guangxi
Tao or Yami, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
word family (cognate words within a given language)
Mulao ethnic group of Guangxi
Jingpo ethnic group of Tibet and Yunnan
Tsou or Cou, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
Hani ethnic group
Gaoshan aborigines (Taiwan), "mountain tribes" (Tw) / Taiwanese aborigines (PRC)
Tajik ethnic group
Lahu ethnic group of Yunnan
Papora or Papura, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
Yugur ethnic group of Gansu
Xibo ethnic group of northeast China
otaku, a Japanese term for people with obsessive interests such as anime, manga, and video games / see also 宅男 / see also 宅女
Nakhi ethnic group in Yunnan
Gelao or Klau ethnic group of Guizhou
Kazakh ethnic group of Xinjiang
(coll.) adults still living with and depending on their parents
Blang people, one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the PRC
Maonan ethnic group of Guangxi
Menba ethnic group
people of a country / nation
Hezhen ethnic group of Heilongjiang province
Ewenke ethnic group of Inner Mongolia
Jinuo ethnic group
Lhoba ethnic group of southeast Tibet
the working poor
Hutu, an ethnic group in Rwanda and Burundi
Bao'an, also called Bonan (ethnic group)
people who spend all their monthly earnings before the next payday
Thao, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
Pumi ethnic group
puyuma, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
lit. Rushing Clan, generation born between 1975-1985 and China's most hedonistic and hard-working social group (netspeak)
to execute all of sb's relatives (as punishment) (old)
main group
original inhabitant / indigenous people
multiethnic
salaried class
family members; fellow clansman
Paiwan, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
enthusiastic fan
Rukai, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
(old) three generations (father, self and sons) / three clans (your own, your mother's, your wife's)
Cham ethnic group
Tujia ethnic group of Hunan

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