The story
- Mandarin · borrowed from紅胡子 /红胡子
- English todayHonghuzi
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 紅胡子 /红胡子 (literally “red beards”). The term originally referred to Russians due to their facial appearance, but was later applied to Chinese bandits.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.