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Chinese symbol for “ethnography”

民族志
mín zú zhì
ethnography

The closest CC-CEDICT match for ethnography is 民族志 (mín zú zhì), defined as: ethnography.

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Characters and stroke order

民 mín
citizens, subjects; a nation's people
radical 83 ⽒ · 5 strokes
族 zú
race, nationality, ethnicity; tribe, clan
radical 70 ⽅ · 11 strokes
志 zhì
determination, will; mark, sign; to record, to write
radical 61 ⼼ · 7 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 民族志.

WordPinyinMeaning
人民rén mínthe people
民主mín zhǔdemocracy; democratic
民族mín zúnationality; ethnic group
居民jū mínresident; inhabitant
公民gōng míncitizen
农民 (農民)nóng mínpeasant; farmer
家族jiā zúfamily; clan
种族 (種族)zhǒng zúrace; ethnic group
同志tóng zhìcomrade; (slang) homosexual

See also: Japanese symbol for “ethnography”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.