qiang
IPA: kˈiɑŋ
Root Word: Qiang
noun
- 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.
- (historical) Any of various groups of people at different periods in ancient China, generally thought to have been of Tibetan-Burmese origin.
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Examples of "qiang" in Sentences
- I'm here for a pickup from Qiang Deng.
- Subjugation of the Qiang and Di tribes.
- A flatbread of the Qiang people of China.
- The siege was lifted by the time the Qiang arrived.
- Zhang Qiang this is not the place to distort history.
- It is possible that they might be related to the Qiang.
- This isn't an article about the Qiang people, after all.
- I note that the Qiang people are thought to be 'related' to Tibetans.
- Any relationship between the Tibetans and the Qiang is speculative at best.
- Stillborn or premature babies are not considered human beings by the Qiang.
- as Xi Jin, your abilities as strong [ 'qiang'] as Li Ke, your body as healthy [ 'kang']
- “Guan jin qiang wu ai” pronounced gwahn jeen chyahng woo eye means go through the golden wall without blockage.
- Chinese dissidents "fan qiang" — jump the Great Firewall — to comment on everything from the country's melamine-poisoned milk supply to illegal property expropriation.
- A small-but-growing number among China's nearly 400 million Internet users — the most of any country — are using proxy servers and other tools to "fan qiang," or "scale the wall" of government censorship tools that interrupt access to many overseas sites.
- A question about the conversion of traditional characters into simplified ones: I noticed that occasionally, the simplified character would have more strokes than the traditional one, such as with the character "qiang" (strong), which is 強 (trad.), and 强 (simplified).