Ethnic group in Chinese
ethnic group · HSK 4
民族
- 民 the people
- 族 ethnic group
Counted with 个: 一个民族
中国有五十六个民族。 China has fifty-six ethnic groups.
Other ways to say ethnic group
How do you say ethnic group in Chinese?
Ethnic group in Chinese is 民族 (mín zú). You can also say 族 (zú).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.