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Noun [East Central German]

Head templates: {{head|gmw-ecg|noun|g=m}} Hui m
  1. (Erzgebirgisch) quirk (odd behaviour of someone) Tags: Erzgebirgisch, masculine Synonyms: Husch

Proper name [English]

Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 徽 (Huī). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|cmn|^徽}} Mandarin 徽 (Huī) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Hui
  1. A Chinese lect spoken in Southern Anhui and neighbouring Zhejiang and Jiangxi. Synonyms: Huizhou Translations (dialect): 徽州話 (Chinese Cantonese), 徽州话 (alt: fai¹ zau¹ waa⁶⁻²) (Chinese Cantonese), 徽語 (Chinese Cantonese), 徽语 (fai¹ jyu⁵) (Chinese Cantonese), 徽州話 (Chinese Mandarin), 徽州话 (Huīzhōuhuà) (Chinese Mandarin), 徽語 (Chinese Mandarin), 徽语 (Huīyǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), hui [masculine] (French), хой (xoj) [masculine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-Hui-en-name-CAezMnlD Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with entries, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with French translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 45 14 41 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 64 36 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 37 37 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 52 48
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Proper name [English]

Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 惠 (Huì), 回 (Huí), or Cantonese 許/许 (hui2). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|cmn|^惠}} Mandarin 惠 (Huì), {{bor|en|yue|-}} Cantonese, {{zh-l|許|tr=hui2}} 許/许 (hui2) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Hui
  1. A surname from Chinese.
    Sense id: en-Hui-en-name-4TuPt0~5 Categories (other): English surnames, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 45 14 41 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 31 41 28 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 37 37 26
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Noun [English]

Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 回 (Huí). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|cmn|^回}} Mandarin 回 (Huí) Head templates: {{en-noun|p}} 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). Tags: plural, plural-only Categories (topical): Ethnicity, Languages Related terms: Dungan, hui, Islam Translations (people): هُ'وي (hu'wy) [masculine] (Arabic), ပန်းသေးလူမျိုး (pan:se:lu-myui:) (Burmese), ပန်းသေး (pan:se:) (Burmese), хуэйзў (hueyzw) [Dungan] (Chinese), хуэйзўжын (hueyzwřɨn) [Dungan] (Chinese), 回族 (wui⁴ zuk⁶) (Chinese Cantonese), 回族 (huízú) (Chinese Mandarin), 回族 (kaizoku) (alt: かいぞく) (Japanese), ホイ族 (hoizoku) (Japanese), дүнген (düñen) (Kazakh), 후이족 (hu'ijok) (Korean), 회족 (hoejok) (alt: 回族) (Korean), Хотон үндэстэн (Xoton ündesten) (Mongolian), Хуй үндэстэн (Xuj ündesten) (Mongolian), هوئی (Persian), хуэйцзу́ (xuejczú) [masculine, plural] (Russian), хуэ́й (xuéj) [masculine] (Russian), خۇيزۇ (xuyzu) (Uyghur), người Hồi (alt: 𠊛回) (Vietnamese), ᡥᠣᡞᡯᡠ ᡠᡣᠰᡠᠷᠠ (hoidzu uksura) (Xibe), Veizcuz (Zhuang)
    Sense id: en-Hui-en-noun-l71n9NbN Disambiguation of Ethnicity: 19 20 61 Disambiguation of Languages: 20 29 51 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English pluralia tantum, Languages of China, Pages with entries, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Burmese translations, Terms with Cantonese translations, Terms with Dungan translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Kazakh translations, Terms with Korean translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Mongolian translations, Terms with Persian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Uyghur translations, Terms with Vietnamese translations, Terms with Xibe translations, Terms with Zhuang translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 45 14 41 Disambiguation of Languages of China: 3 2 95 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 37 37 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Cantonese translations: 44 56 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 14 86 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 52 48
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1
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        "(Erzgebirgisch) quirk (odd behaviour of someone)"
      ],
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        {
          "word": "Husch"
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    }
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  "word": "Hui"
}
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          "english": "to have a quirk",
          "text": "enn Hui hamm",
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Hui"
}

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    "English pluralia tantum",
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    "Terms with Arabic translations",
    "Terms with Burmese translations",
    "Terms with Cantonese translations",
    "Terms with Dungan translations",
    "Terms with Japanese translations",
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    "Terms with Korean translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Mongolian translations",
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    "Terms with Uyghur translations",
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          "ref": "1978 November [1978 October 16], “Religious Life Never Interfered With”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVII, number 11, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16:",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "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, →OCLC, page 109:",
          "text": "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).",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "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 2020-05-11:",
          "text": "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.",
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        }
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        "An ethnic group of China, distinguished by their practice of Islam, who speak Mandarin (or Dungan in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Russia)."
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          "China",
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          "Islam",
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          "Mandarin",
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          "Dungan",
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          "Kyrgyzstan",
          "Kyrgyzstan"
        ],
        [
          "Kazakhstan",
          "Kazakhstan"
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        [
          "Russia",
          "Russia"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural",
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "hu'wy",
      "sense": "people",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "هُ'وي"
    },
    {
      "code": "my",
      "lang": "Burmese",
      "roman": "pan:se:lu-myui:",
      "sense": "people",
      "word": "ပန်းသေးလူမျိုး"
    },
    {
      "code": "my",
      "lang": "Burmese",
      "roman": "pan:se:",
      "sense": "people",
      "word": "ပန်းသေး"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "wui⁴ zuk⁶",
      "sense": "people",
      "word": "回族"
    },
    {
      "code": "dng",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "roman": "hueyzw",
      "sense": "people",
      "tags": [
        "Dungan"
      ],
      "word": "хуэйзў"
    },
    {
      "code": "dng",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "roman": "hueyzwřɨn",
      "sense": "people",
      "tags": [
        "Dungan"
      ],
      "word": "хуэйзўжын"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "huízú",
      "sense": "people",
      "word": "回族"
    },
    {
      "alt": "かいぞく",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kaizoku",
      "sense": "people",
      "word": "回族"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hoizoku",
      "sense": "people",
      "word": "ホイ族"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "düñen",
      "sense": "people",
      "word": "дүнген"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "hu'ijok",
      "sense": "people",
      "word": "후이족"
    },
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      "alt": "回族",
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      "roman": "hoejok",
      "sense": "people",
      "word": "회족"
    },
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      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "Xoton ündesten",
      "sense": "people",
      "word": "Хотон үндэстэн"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "Xuj ündesten",
      "sense": "people",
      "word": "Хуй үндэстэн"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "people",
      "word": "هوئی"
    },
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      "word": "хуэйцзу́"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "word": "хуэ́й"
    },
    {
      "code": "ug",
      "lang": "Uyghur",
      "roman": "xuyzu",
      "sense": "people",
      "word": "خۇيزۇ"
    },
    {
      "alt": "𠊛回",
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "people",
      "word": "người Hồi"
    },
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      "code": "sjo",
      "lang": "Xibe",
      "roman": "hoidzu uksura",
      "sense": "people",
      "word": "ᡥᠣᡞᡯᡠ ᡠᡣᠰᡠᠷᠠ"
    },
    {
      "code": "za",
      "lang": "Zhuang",
      "sense": "people",
      "word": "Veizcuz"
    }
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  "word": "Hui"
}

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    }
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    {
      "word": "Huizhou"
    }
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    {
      "code": "yue",
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      "sense": "dialect",
      "word": "徽州話"
    },
    {
      "alt": "fai¹ zau¹ waa⁶⁻²",
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      "sense": "dialect",
      "word": "徽州话"
    },
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      "code": "yue",
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      "word": "徽語"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
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      "roman": "fai¹ jyu⁵",
      "sense": "dialect",
      "word": "徽语"
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
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      "sense": "dialect",
      "word": "徽州話"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "Huīzhōuhuà",
      "sense": "dialect",
      "word": "徽州话"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "dialect",
      "word": "徽語"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "Huīyǔ",
      "sense": "dialect",
      "word": "徽语"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "dialect",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "hui"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "xoj",
      "sense": "dialect",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "хой"
    }
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}

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      "args": {
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      "categories": [
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        "A surname from Chinese."
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    }
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  "word": "Hui"
}

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