Han Chinese

alternative Hàn Chinese

1. not comparableReferring to the largest ethnic group native to China.

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   About 98 per cent of Taiwan's inhabitants are Han Chinese, a diverse mix of ethnic and linguistic groups, including Hakka, Cantonese and Fujianese, who came from China's southern coast. Taiwan's other two per cent are from one of the nine indigenous tribes, which are scattered throughout the island but largely concentrated along the east coast and in the Central Mountain Range.

   2007 April, Julie Grundvig, “TAIWAN”, in The Asia Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the Continent, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 103, column 2

alternative Hàn Chinese

1. countablein pluralA member of the largest ethnic group native to China.

   I might also say that my tour guide was a Han Chinese and not originally from Xinjiang.

   2020, Albert Riley, The Life and Journeys of a Dabizi

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   Before the Tang dynasty, Lueyang was occupied mostly by minority Chinese who were defeated by the Han Chinese, and most were forced to migrate to other places.

   2005, “Intergenerational Transfer in China”, in Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 238; republished as “Son Preference, Marriage, and Intergenerational Transfer in Rural China”, in Anne H. Gauthier, C.Y. Cyrus Chu, Shripad Tuljapurkar, editors, Allocating Public and Private Resources across Generations: Riding the Age Waves, volume 2, Springer, 2007, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 144

   Lueyang county is a mountainous county located in the Qing mountains in the far south of Shaanxi province, far from Xi'an, on the borders of Sichuan and Gansu provinces. It has a relatively small population—about 200,000. Before the Tang dynasty, Lueyang was occupied mostly by minority Chinese, who were defeated by the Han Chinese, and most were forced to migrate to other places.

   2007, Marcus W. Feldman, Shripad Tuljapurkar, Shuzhuo Li, Xiaoyi Jin, Nan Li, “Son Preference, Marriage, and Intergenerational Transfer in Rural China”, in Anne H. Gauthier, C.Y. Cyrus Chu, Shripad Tuljapurkar, editors, Allocating Public and Private Resources across Generations: Riding the Age Waves, volume 2, Springer, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 144

   I think it would be better to leave the position of sect leader to Junior Brother Guangxia. He is a Han Chinese and the orphan of the great hero Li Wencheng.

   2016, Reggie Hanlon, Tragedy on a Light-Year Scale