Manchu
/manˈtʃuː
/noun
1A member of a people originally living in Manchuria, who formed the last imperial dynasty of China (1644–1912).The Qing dynasty was founded by Manchus, who conquered China in the 1640s....
- The Manchus conquered China and established an imperial dynasty which ruled between 1644 and 1911.
- That Huang, a Han Chinese, resented being ruled by a dynasty of Manchus no doubt had something to do with this opinion, as did his desire to strengthen the position of scholar-officials like himself.
2 [mass noun] The Tungusic language of the Manchus, still spoken by a few thousand people in Xinjiang, though most Manchus now speak Chinese.He was a custodian of literature, in Manchu, Mongolian, Chinese, Tibetan and the Uigur language of Turkestan....
- It is part of the diverse Uralic-Altaic language family, which spread with the ancient Mongol Empire and also contains Korean, Manchu, Turkish, Finnish, and Hungarian.
- The job, translating the Bible into Manchu, would take him to St Petersburg for two years.
adjective
Relating to the Manchu people or their language.As an ‘international concession’ as well as treaty port, its special privileges created an enclave exempt from Manchu authority....
- It is set during the early Qing Dynasty, and Gordon Liu plays a man on the run after murderous Manchu oppressors kill his family.
- He asked all the Hans to follow Manchu traditions, shaving their hair from the front of the head and wearing a thick plait at the back.
Origin
The name in Manchu, literally 'pure'.