Tujia

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 土家族 (Tǔjiāzú).

Noun

Tujia (plural Tujias or Tujia)

1. A member of a large ethnic minority in the People's Republic of China, living in the Wuling Mountains.
   • [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:

     (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."]

Translations

people

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 土家族 (zh) (Tǔjiāzú)

• Xibe: ᡨᡠᡪᡞᠶᠠ
  ᡠᡣᠰᡠᠷᠠ (tujiya uksura)

Proper noun

Tujia

1. Their Tibeto-Burman language, which has northern and southern dialects.

Translations

language

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 土家語 / 土家语 (tǔjiāyǔ)

• Xibe: ᡨᡠᡪᡞᠶᠠ
  ᡤᡞᠰᡠᠨ (tujiya gisun)