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overseas Chinese en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A person or people of Chinese ethnicity, living in a non-Chinese country; a member of the ethnic Chinese expatriate or immigrant community; Huaqiao
   • 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 2007, “About OCPA”, in Overseas Chinese Physics Association, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2010:
   • 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. 2009 August 7, Malcolm Moore, “Overseas Chinese become targets.”, in The Telegraph, archived from the original on 12 Oct 2009:
   • 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. 1981 October 25, “Overseas Chinese cited for ROC-building role”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXII, number 42, Taipei, page 1:
   • It was not until 1974 that the first Taiwanese businessman settled there, and thereupon began a gradual increase in the Overseas Chinese (OC) population. 2008 July 30, James To Jiann Hua, “The Overseas Chinese in Tonga”, in The Tokyo Foundation, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2014:

Forms

Synonyms

Huaqiao (from Mandarin Chinese)

Translations (19)

id Tionghoa perantauan (overseas Chinese) · ug چەتئەلدىكى جۇڭگولۇقلار (overseas Chinese) · de Auslandschinese (overseas Chinese) · cmn 僑胞 /侨胞 (overseas Chinese) · fr chinois d'outre-mer (overseas Chinese) · vi hoa kiều (overseas Chinese) · hu külföldön élő kínai (overseas Chinese) · cmn 華僑 /华侨 (overseas Chinese) · fi ulkokiinalainen (overseas Chinese) · fr huaqiao (overseas Chinese) · hu tengerentúli kínai (overseas Chinese) · ja 華僑 (overseas Chinese) · mnc ᡨᡠᠯᡝᡵᡤᡳ ᡤᡠᡵᡠᠨ ᡩᡝ ᡨᡝᡥᡝ ᡩᡠᠯᡳᠮᠪᠠᡳ ᡤᡠᡵᡠᠨ ᡳ ᠨᡳᠶᠠᠯᠮᠠ (overseas Chinese) · ru хуаця́о (overseas Chinese) · de Huaqiao (overseas Chinese) · id hoakiau (overseas Chinese) · ko 화교 (overseas Chinese) · hu külföldre vándorolt/települt kínai (overseas Chinese) · es tusán (overseas Chinese)