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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

种族

Pronunciation / Transliteration: zhǒngzú

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Ethnicity/ɛθˈnɪs.ə.ti/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2450 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这项调查包含了关于种族和背景的问题。"

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1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    The fact or state of belonging to a particular social group that has a common national or cultural tradition.

    "The census collects data on race, ethnicity, and language."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the ancient Greek word 'ethnos', meaning a nation or tribe, combined with the suffix '-ity'. It entered the English language in the mid-19th century and gained broader anthropological and sociological usage in the mid-20th century to describe shared cultural, linguistic, and ancestral heritages.

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