塔吉克族

Tǎjíkèzú

popculture

Meanings

1 Tajik ethnic group
2 Tajik people (one of China's 56 recognized ethnicities)

Characters

tower (phonetic)

auspicious (phonetic)

to overcome (phonetic)

ethnic group / clan

Examples

塔吉克族主要分布在新疆的帕米尔高原。

Tǎjíkè zú zhǔyào fēnbù zài Xīnjiāng de Pàmǐ'ěr gāoyuán.

The Tajik people live mainly on the Pamir Plateau in Xinjiang.

她是来自新疆的塔吉克族姑娘。

Tā shì láizì Xīnjiāng de Tǎjíkè zú gūniang.

She is a Tajik girl from Xinjiang.

Tips

culture

China's 塔吉克族 (Tǎjíkè zú, Tajik people) are linguistically Iranian (Pamiri), unlike most other Tajiks elsewhere who speak Persian dialects. They are concentrated in 塔什库尔干 (Tǎshíkù'ěrgān, Tashkurgan) county on the Pamir Plateau, near the borders with Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

Stroke Order

塔 tǎ

吉 jí

克 kè

族 zú