The 10 Largest Chinese Ethnic Groups 

+Nick Hentschel you my friend, you deserve an award!

DarkWolfyPrincess 10,000 yuan . . . all in advance.

+Nick Hentschel can confirm, am Han solo, and cousine is han solo, and teacher is han solo, and mayor is han solo...

+Data Integration Thought Entity Humanoid Interface Han's a busy man, isn't he?

Nick Hentschel hehe yeah, we're quite busy ^^

+WoWplayer527 Likewise, I'm of Italian and English heritage and am white.

+WoWplayer527 I have it as well O.O.

i´ve got the same ... guess they are just kidding :)

Chinese like to claim that everyone is han...lol

Qaboos Mintaka No. Everyone like to claim they are Chinese. You can guess why .... lololo

Congrats to having a language that's harder to learn than Cantonese (that's a compliment really, 8 tones! yikes).

If we lump Hmong from southeast Asia with those in China they actually outnumber the uyghurs.

*Mongic

@StickyRice You can said that, but who care ? Hmong is only tiny sub group of the Miao. The Miao is like the Han- who have many dialect. Just like the Lao and the Thai who every one will be understandable.

@@theminuteman7611 lol

Tammy May yea You guys use it only when you make salah ?

We also use arabic in our prayers only

hui people never chinese

@@tanktalking5300WTF? I have so many hui friends and they are all Chinese.

tank talking don’t tell u who we are when u aren’t one. 😠

its true, we love seeing inner Mongolians singing in their mother tongue in national tv, inner Mongolian alternative rock is the best

The Mongols who are living in China are the real descendants of Genghis Khan

@@danyawang3632 Are you talking about jindandao incident or cultural revolution ?

Russia outlawed mongolian script at some point.. Much like China is trying to do these days.

@@danyawang3632 lmao you are one of those people arent ya

i dont have this mark so youre wrong

@@matthewmatthew981 wasp?

@@Mirsab never mind.

Exactly, I'm not Han Chinese so I was very confused and scared that whether My ancestors were Chinese ?!!

I'm not a Han or a Chinese, but I have the marks 😆

+Glisero Same but I only have a dot scar from a fucking bee sting lol

+Glisero I'm also white, but I somehow have the lines on one arm... I guess I better start learning Mandarin ASAP :)

+Glisero I checked my arm nothing. And then I checked my Chinese husband's arm and I was so amazed to see it there lol

+Glisero Hahahaha

+Филип Брчић With a serious face, I say it's time to get one of those DNA kits, who knows you might trace your lineage back to that one ancestor that came by the ancient silk route. :)

Thanks captain helper

I know this comment is really old but I was going to say the same thing

+jo XDDDDDD

+jo I do 2 and on my arm

Have one on my arm

Must be pregnant or just fat with stretch marks lol

its because you were fat and become slim now

+Kelly Su I LOVE HOKKIEN

Kelly Su it’s better to be referred as ‘affirmative action’

Hahahahahahahahahahahahsshahahha

Yes you are correct pigboykool, and know your history quite well. But China is still ruled by Han Chinese Mandarin speaker only, and tends to discriminate other minority groups.

pigboykool Yes,you are right ,i am Chinese live in Europe ,Han Chinese is very Mixed too ,but Han culture is dominated culture in Chinese world ,Even mongolia control China ,they used han culture And most of noble Mongolian stayed in China And become "han Chinese ,such as family name Jin or Bao are original Mongolian family .

pigboykool Very true. I am trying to tell many ignorant people about this but they just dont get it.

@@sanmiaokingdom1843 Discrimination? Are you kidding me ?Other ethnic minorities have privileges in China, and Mongols and Manchus have ruled China in history.

No, chinese is not like American. Unlike America, they have immigrants coming in and becoming American. Those ethnic ppl have lived in China for thousands of years, even during the Silk Road ages.

True, I am Hui guy living in Qinghai my parents are actually working in Fuzhou so I am chilling at my grandpa with my sisters and brothers. And Arabic is actually our language to speak in mosque or to talk to other Muslims which are from other places. Btw Taiwan recognizes us as Islamic Han because we live spreading out in China, like Zheng He he was Hui from Yunnan. We are also Sinitic like Han or Tibetans and Burmese etc.

Rahman Yu Dong 听说回族并不是根据种族来看的，是根据信仰

Uighur doesn't speak Arabic they have their own language

Shuo Cheng 是的我们是他的汉族但来自青海的伊斯兰教的问候

Hui people don't speak Arabic or Farisi. They are Han Chinese who converted to Islamic religion. I'm a Hui. I don't speak any of those languages, just a few phrashes.

+Jonathan Hung I think I took it since I'm not chinese but I have it lol

Teddy Grande lol

this is like the sixth toenail myth

same lol Im Han but no mark

+Jonathan Hung Is that really a thing? I thought that was pseudo-science.

What??Han are diverse too....wow

That's actually not how it works Asian American aren't really Americans to Asian people but black and white Americans are Americans

Why Asian Americans aren't American well half of them is fully Asian cultured while the other half is self haterd mainly Chinese American.

Korean American is either they are Korean or Korean American not American cus they still are connected to their so called Korean culture.

ScorpiusTheScorpin In fact, hmong is a branch of miao. Not all miao are Hmong. In China, only the miao of the western branch is hmong, and the rest miao is not hmong.

Bettas Zht that’s right and not a lot of Hmong people know that.

The Hmong are a beautiful culture. I'm aware of this attitude in southeast Asia towards the word "Miao.". It seems like the word is not considered offensive in China. It's strange how this division has emerged. Is it really because "Miao" sounds like a cat in some language? Or is that a myth?

Fun fact Miao was stateless people live on the hill...that's why they called Miao(wild cat/barbarian) coz they won't obey han chinese authority...and some left china and went to SEA due to goverment expansion China was multicultural until 1 ethnic group dominates the land by population

There are no Pure Race in the first place.

@Ghost Reaper there’re people who are 100% Indian, Irish, people from African...

Nope, depends on the area.... northern people in shanghai, beijing they are mixed or forgotton their roots but in cities/areas like chengdu, fujian, shenzhen, wuhan, etc still have majority pure han people who are shorter in height

source?

@@shawnv123 hi, common history in the history book, I'm not historian, but I know that the time before the Qin Dynasty around 200bc, this region was full of countries or city-states with each one has their own language, meurement . Different philosophies, clothing and money (medium of exchange) ... only left with some dialects today . The word han appears only after the Han dynasty.

hui❤tibetan han💩💩

I'm Lhoba

@Green Scenery you will find me everywhere

@Green Scenery how did you come to know my location?

+Helsic Yiverus I am Sichuanese! So much missing the foods there!

Tibetans are not ethnic groups of China. If you have researched better, Tibet was a forcefully occupied nation by the Communist China. China is a selfless poison in this universe, doing all those inhuman acts. Now China is trying to occupy Hong Kong just like Tibet and East Turkistan. Free Tibet, Free East Turkistan, Free Hong Kong

@@norbuwa Free Basque, Free Corsica

+maz khatun I have it too lol I guess I'm han even though my parents are from pakistan

Why do you ask

+maz khatun The Han are everywhere. Just odds, I guess.

+maz khatun There are a lot of Han... you think none of them went south?

+maz khatun I'm from Serbia and, apparently, I'm also Han.

+Chloe Chang Nice see another who enjoys learning about diverse cultures. You are right the Miao who are also known as Hmong and Meo also live in Vietnam and I believe Lao. There are/were are huge number of sub groups of Miao each with their own distinct costume. In ancient times they were the rulers of much of southern china.

+Chloe Chang right! Finally! But yeah Hmong/Miao/Meo are really all over the place. Both my parents are Hmong, and my dad was born in Laos and came to Thailand during the Laotian Civil War as baby. He grew up most of his life in a Refugee camps. My mom was born in Thailand, and my family and I came to the United States in 2004. This is really exciting, its not everyday that people talk about the Hmong people. Hmong's are such a small minority groups compare to the other ethnicity groups.

Ze Yang Thanks for sharing the personal history of your family with us.

Ze Yang miao people are mysterious in chinese view...a lot of mysterious novels involve miao people

So do they speak Mandarin as mother tongue? And in which letters do they write?

+Jari S try the wookie call and you will prove it true or false

+Jeremy Springer Nope, I still sound like DukeNukem

then you are dude nukem, the son of duke

Your mother has chinese origins alot of chinese went to the philippines many years ago so yeah

we must be talking Centuries then, like Ghenghis khan old.

I'm suuuuper white and have the Han mark 😶

yOu haVe sOme sPLAinInG tO Do!!

Uyghurs speak their own native language. It is nothing like Chinese. I know an Uyghur.

+Mani Elliott i didnt say that uyghurs speak language similar to chinese, i said they re turkic people

Ok.

yes.

You know people can quote you, right? When referring to the Uyghurs "They speak a northern chinese dialect which is much *_more close to mandarin than other dialects_*"

isn't the first tone?

+Oscar Nehm Checked multiple sources and its definitely the fourth tone. Here's one with the actual pronunciation. zh.forvo.com/word/%E5%A3%AE%E6%97%8F/#zh

wtfffff are you actually everywhere !!!

+Funnyguyfun7 he's on every single channel with a asian host

What have potatoes done to you bro?

Yes like sweet potato or dick potato etcetra.

Kebab with extra garlic mayo its also the name of that ethnic group for some reason

Yes, but Han Chinese in general have diverse look because of intermarriage with other ethnics. Northern Han have more northern mix, southern Han have more southern mix, and Hui have western Asian mix

But we have Persian + Arab blood and you don't. xD The definition of Hui blood is as ambiguous as Latino/Hispanic people. There's all sorts of mixing in different degrees. The government just likes to group all Han-speaking muslims as Hui. Some Hui are Han forced to convert, while others mostly have a mix of Mongol blood.

True I am Hui Chinese and we are not like Arabs or Poorsians btw it doesnt matter with beards its just a gene not ethnic.

Tabgach Giyamhu What languages do you speak? I guess that Manchurian isn't one of them as it is almost extinct.

not all

chai yang finally we are known....

oh c’mon who doesn’t know you?

catc yang You mean Miao

BuBbLeTeA AeStHeTiCs been known, just not looking in the right places.

Same but I'm black

+Mouiylus the line thing supposed to be a joke.

+Mouiylus same, i'm half italian n half german

+Mouiylus Awh.. I got excited over nothing. My ancestry (according to my mom) told me that we're originally from Hans :\

Oh my God!))) I have same, I am kazakh)))

Thats like in india delhi has jama masjid which is an area of indian Muslim food, and mumbai has mohammad ali road

Yasasin Uyghur Eli,Yasasin Sherqiy Turkistan #NeMutluTurkumDiyene

We Hui also don't talk Arabic only use to talk with Uyghurs or Salars etc who don't speak Mandarin

Dude, in reality there are over 300 dialects spoken in mainland China itself. And the Han, being the vast majority of the population mostly speak Mandarin as their language (or IF they know more than 1) they speak Mandarin 1st since it's whats tought and used in China now. The Han are spread out in the main areas of China with large cities and that includes places like Shanghai, Guangzhou, and other areas where many of the individual dialects were indead originated. Since Mandarin is tought in school, most families who speak other dialect may continue to pass down their own dialects in the family, but they will/must learn Mandarin. In reality it is vastly impossible to calculate how many Han themselves know a second dialect (if any). Would it be Cantonese from far Southern China, the Hakka next door, Min a little farther up, Wu to the far East coast, or Gan farther inward... who knows. And Shanghainese is actually spoken by around 14 million Chinese currently. That's isn't even in the top 10 in China. It's to complicated to calculate how many Han know a 2nd dialect, then find out WHICH dialect it is. As I said it's more common for people who know the minority dialects to learn Mandarin, than the Han, who the vast majority naturally know Mandarin learn another dialect. In China most people try to actually learn English as a 2nd language in school to do well. Even now in Hong Kong, it's won't be fully part of China until 2047, but they are already trying to switch from teaching Cantonese to Mandarin. In reality it makes sense to just list Mandarin under Han.

I'm from Finland and I also have it.

Im from Brazil but I have Han mark , im chinese. hahaha

I'm half swedish half northern irish, i've got it too.

The Slovak word originally comes from Mandarin. All variants of *čaj* comes from Mandarin. All variants of *tea* comes from Cantonese

@@emdadahmed5592 Fascinating!

你好小眼睛

上海人都成sub group了还行

+Jay Hughes: Yep, by tracing the family name is one of the easiest way to found out his/her ancestral background of a person other than testing his/her DNA. It is one of the reason why the Chinese see their children carrying on their last name in the next generation is so important.

+pigboykool though sometimes tracing family name isn't the same as tracing your genetic heritage. As, because carrying on the family name has been so important in China and other Confucian societies, people with no son or children of their own might adopt someone to pass their name as a last resort. If one had daughters, then adopting the husband of your daughter, so that he could carry on the name was an option, but it could also be someone completely unrelated. So while you can draw conclusions from a family name of what a person's ancestry is likely to have been, it's not completely certain. Especially with more famous names like Kong.

+Jay Hughes No. My cousin's last name is Hui. It is a Cantonese romanization of the name Xu or Hsu depending on where u are from. The Hui people is a shortened form of the word for Islam in Chinese, at least from what I know since Islam is Hui Jiao.

+DarthJF: Even it is possible to have adopting children to bear one's family name, however, majority of the people are the decendents of the Family Name trees. Up till Qing Dynasty and the beginning of Republic of China, no matter if you are poor or rich, each family (usually a village) strictly recorded down every single person in his/her Family Name tree. People can easily trace back their ancestor for hundreds of years with these records.

There is a book called the 100 surnames. Anyone who's surname is not on that MIGHT be an ethnic minority. Theres been lots of mixing so its only a very rough guide.

the best way to show the difference is the European languages. indian languages are like European languages

What is wolof

🙀😺

faeirydancer U have to be Chinese first, then do the test. It’s like a bonus proof, if u know what I mean. Most of my friends including myself, have it. My ex-gf doesn’t have it and she’s Tibetan.

Ничё скоро...

anywhere,,hui people are distributed around china , they are good in running halal restaurants,hope you enjoy it

possible to find. Just search em up before hand

Fari Hui are mostly living in Shaanxi province, Qinghai province and Gansu province. Basically central and western China