唐人

Tángrén
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 people of the Tang dynasty
  2. 2 Chinese people, as overseas Chinese call themselves

Examples

HSK 5
Tángrén xiě de shī jiào Tángshī.
Poems written by people of the Tang are called Tang poems.
HSK 7-9
Zài Jiùjīnshān, lǎo huáqiáo xíguàn zìchēng Tángrén.
In San Francisco, older overseas Chinese are used to calling themselves Tang people.

Tips

culture
The overseas use comes from Cantonese and Fujianese emigrants, who called China 唐山 'the Tang mountains' and their quarter abroad 唐人街 (Chinatown). It looks back to the Tang as the high point of Chinese power and culture.

Stroke Order

唐 Táng
人 rén