Qiang

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An ethnic group in China, living mainly in a mountainous region in the northwestern part of Sichuan on the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau.
  2. Any of various groups of people at different periods in ancient China, generally thought to have been of Tibetan-Burmese origin.

Word forms

Qiang

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 羌 (Qiāng).

Derived words

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