Hui meaning

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A member of a traditionally Muslim people of northwest China, descended chiefly from the Han and an important minority of the Chinese population.
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(New Zealand) A Māori social gathering or assembly.
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Origin of hui

Chinese (Mandarin) Huí shortened from Huíhuí from Middle Chinese xfiuaj-xfiuaj any of various Muslim peoples of the Song dynasty

Sentence Examples

  • The Ostiaks know them under the names of Orghoy, or Workho, both of which recall the Ugrians; the name of Hui is also in use among the Ostiaks, and that of Yaron among the Syrgenians.

  • 11 7 1), Irish king of Leinster, succeeded his father in the principality of the Hui Cinsellaigh (1115) and eventually in the kingship of Leinster.

  • See Champfleury, Les Grandes Figures d'hier et d'aujourd' hui (Paris, 1861); Mantz, "G.

  • Thus the diocese of Kilmacduagh was the territory of the Hui Fiachrach Aidne; that of Kilfenora was the tribe land of Corco-Mruad or Corcomroe.

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