Meanings
plural Tujias
- A member of a large ethnic minority in the People's Republic of China, living in the Wuling Mountains.
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(Peng Chao-feng), a delegate to the Fourth NPC, a Tuchia peasant of (Hotsung) brigade of (Laotung) commune in Laifeng County, said: "The two important central decisions completely reflect the desires of the people of the minority nationalities, in resolute response to the call of the party Central Committee we Tuchia and Miao people will unite most closely around the party Central Committee headed by Comrade Hua Kuo-feng, obey the commands of the Central Committee in all actions, persist in taking the class struggle as the key link, in the party's basic line and in continuing the revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat, struggle against revisionism, the bourgeoisie in the party and all incorrect lines which run counter to Mao Tsetung Thought and advance forever and victoriously along Chairman Mao's revolutionary line."
[1976 October 18 [1976 October 17], “Rural Hupeh Scores Revisionists, Splittists”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 202, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Wuhan Hupeh Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Central-South Region, page H 4
- Their Tibeto-Burman language, which has northern and southern dialects.
Origin
- Mandarin土家族
- EnglishTujia
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 土家族 (Tǔjiāzú).
More words from Mandarin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 土家族, 土家語 /土家语
- 土家族 (Tǔjiāzú)people
- 土家語 /土家语 (tǔjiāyǔ)language
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