Hui people
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 10,586,087 (2011 Census) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Elsewhere: Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Thailand and Myanmar | |
| Languages | |
|
Mandarin Chinese, Dungan, some Persian, and other Sinitic languages |
|
| Religion | |
| Mainly Sunni Islam (80% Hanafi and 20% Sufism) | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
|
Dungan, Panthay, Dongxiangs, Han Chinese, other Sino-Tibetan peoples |
| Hui people | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chinese | 回族 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Transcriptions | |
|---|---|
| Standard Mandarin | |
| IPA | [xwěi.tsǔ] |
| Wu | |
| Romanization | we zoh |
| Hakka | |
| Romanization | Fui-tshu̍k |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | wuìh juhk |
| Jyutping | wui4 zuk6 |
| Southern Min | |
| Hokkien POJ | Hôe-cho̍k |
| Teochew Peng'im | Huê-tsôk |
| Eastern Min | |
| Fuzhou BUC | Huòi-cŭk |
The Hui people (Chinese: ; pinyin: Huízú; Wade–Giles: Hui2tsu2, Xiao'erjing: خُوِذُو; Dungan: Хуэйзў, Xuejzw) are a Chinese ethnic group which is composed predominantly of adherents of the Muslim faith and found throughout China, though they are concentrated mainly in the Northwestern provinces of the country and the Zhongyuan. According to a 2011 census, China is home to approximately 10.5 million Hui people, the majority of whom are Chinese-speaking practitioners of Islam, though some practice other religions.
Hui people are ethnically and linguistically similar to Han Chinese with the exception that most of them practice Islam, engendering distinctive cultural characteristics. For example, as Muslims, they follow Islamic dietary laws and reject the consumption of pork, the most common meat consumed in China, and have given rise to their variation of Chinese cuisine. Their mode of dress differs primarily in that old men wear white caps and old women wear headscarves, as is the case in many Islamic cultures, however most of the young people of Hui ancestry are practically indistinguishable from mainstream Han Chinese.
...
Wikipedia