Hui

Hui

See also: hui, huí, huì, huī, and huǐ

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Mandarin 回 (Huí).

Noun

Hui pl (plural only)

1. An ethnic group of China, distinguished by their practice of Islam, who speak Mandarin (or Dungan in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Russia).
   • 1978 November [16 October 1978], “Religious Life Never Interfered With”, in Eastern Horizon‎, volume XVII, number 11, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, ISSN 0012-8813, OCLC 751117974, 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.

   • 2002, Dru C. Gladney, “Ethnoreligious Resurgence in a Northwestern Sufi Community”, in Susan D. Blum; Lionel M. Jensen, editors, China Off Center: Mapping the Margins of the Middle Kingdom‎, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, LCCN 2002002101, OCLC 760388376, 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).

   • 2020 May 11, Ligaya Mishan, “Eating in Xi’an, Where Wheat and Lamb Speak to China’s Varied Palette”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 11 May 2020:

     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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hui.

Translations

people

Arabic: هُوي‎ m (hūy) Burmese: ပန်းသေးလူမျိုး (pan:se:lu-myui:), ပန်းသေး (my) (pan:se:) Chinese: Cantonese: 回族 (wui4 zuk6) Dungan: хуэйзў (hueyzw), хуэйзўжын (hueyzwřɨn) Mandarin: 回族 (zh) (huízú) Japanese: 回族 (ja) (かいぞく, kaizoku), ホイ族 (hoizoku) Kazakh: дүнген (düngen) Korean: 후이족 (ko) (hu'ijok), 회족(回族) (ko) (hoejok) Mongolian: Хотон үндэстэн (Xoton ündesten), Хуй үндэстэн (Xuj ündesten) Persian: هوئی‎ Russian: хуэйцзу́ m pl (xuejczú), хуэ́й (ru) m (xuéj) Tibetan: please add this translation if you can Uyghur: خۇيزۇ‎ (xuyzu) Vietnamese: người Hồi (𠊛回) Zhuang: Veizcuz

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Mandarin 徽 (Huī).

Proper noun

Hui

1. A Chinese lect spoken in Southern Anhui and neighbouring Zhejiang and Jiangxi.

Translations

dialect

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Cantonese: 徽州話／徽州话, 徽州话 (fai1 zau1 waa6-2), 徽語／徽语, 徽语 (fai1 jyu5) Mandarin: 徽州話／徽州话 (Huīzhōuhuà), 徽語／徽语 (zh) (Huīyǔ) French: hui (fr) m Russian: хой (ru) m (xoj)

See also

• Dungan
• hui
• Islam

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Mandarin 惠 (Huì), 回 (Huí), or Cantonese 許／许 (heoi2).

Proper noun

Hui

1. A surname from Chinese.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Hui is the 5966^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 5769 individuals. Hui is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (93.5%) individuals.

Anagrams

• UHI