overseas Chinese

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Etymology

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Noun

overseas Chinese (countable and uncountable, plural overseas Chinese)

1. A person or people of Chinese ethnicity, living in a non-Chinese country; a member of the ethnic Chinese expatriate or immigrant community; Huaqiao
   • 1981 October 25, “Overseas Chinese cited for ROC-building role”, in Free China Weekly‎^[1], volume XXII, number 42, Taipei, page 1:

     President Chiang Ching-kuo sent a message urging overseas Chinese to help reunify China under the Three Principles of the People. Overseas Chinese should join with compatriots and the military of the Taiwan area and the people on the Chinese mainland to support the anti-Communist cause and create a bright future for the Chinese people.

   • 2008 July 30, James To Jiann Hua, “The Overseas Chinese in Tonga”, in The Tokyo Foundation‎^[2], archived from the original on 25 April 2014:

     It was not until 1974 that the first Taiwanese businessman settled there, and thereupon began a gradual increase in the Overseas Chinese (OC) population.

   • 2007, “About OCPA”, in Overseas Chinese Physics Association‎^[3], archived from the original on 25 February 2010:

     OCPA stands for Overseas Chinese Physics Association. [...] The chartered goals of the organization are to promote physics research in general and to promote recognition of achievements by ethnic Chinese physicists in particular

   • 2009 August 7, Malcolm Moore, “Overseas Chinese become targets.”, in The Telegraph‎^[4], archived from the original on 12 October 2009:

     With China’s rising wealth being chronicled on a near-daily basis by the media, overseas Chinese can probably expected to be targeted more regularly, either by opportunist criminals abroad or by envious people on the mainland.

Usage notes

• This term is usually intended to include both immigrants and their descendants.
• The application of the term to people of mixed descent can be unclear.
• Generally the adject "overseas" in overseas Chinese is not capitalized according to the majority of documented usages; however, some social science publications use the form Overseas Chinese.

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Huaqiao

Translations

overseas Chinese — see also Chinese

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 華僑／华侨 (zh) (Huáqiáo), 僑胞／侨胞 (zh) (Qiáobāo)

• Finnish: ulkokiinalainen
• French: chinois d’outre-mer m, huaqiao
• German: Auslandschinese m, Huaqiao
• Hungarian: tengerentúli kínai, külföldön élő kínai, külföldre vándorolt/​települt kínai
• Indonesian: Tionghoa perantauan, hoakiau
• Japanese: 華僑 (ja) (かきょう, Kakyō)
• Korean: 화교(華僑) (Hwagyo)
• Manchu: ᡨᡠᠯᡝᡵᡤᡳ
  ᡤᡠᡵᡠᠨ
  ᡩᡝ
  ᡨᡝᡥᡝ
  ᡩᡠᠯᡳᠮᠪᠠᡳ
  ᡤᡠᡵᡠᠨ ᡳ
  ᠨᡳᠶᠠᠯᠮᠠ (tulergi gurun de tehe dulimbai gurun-i niyalma)
• Russian: хуаця́о (ru) m or f (xuacjáo)
• Spanish: tusán m (Chinese Peruvian)
• Uyghur: چەتئەلدىكى جۇڭگولۇقلار (chet'eldiki junggoluqlar)
• Vietnamese: hoa kiều (華僑)