overseas Chinese

Noun

 * 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

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.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Finnish: ulkokiinalainen
 * French: chinois d'outre-mer, huaqiao
 * German: Auslandschinese, Huaqiao
 * Hungarian: tengerentúli kínai, külföldön élő kínai, külföldre vándorolt/​települt kínai
 * Indonesian: Tionghoa perantauan, hoakiau
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: ^화교(華僑)
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: tusán
 * Uyghur: چەتئەلدىكى جۇڭگولۇقلار
 * Vietnamese: hoa kiều (華僑)