黄种 (huángzhǒng): the yellow race (dated)

Meanings

1 the yellow race (dated)
2 the Mongoloid race (dated racial term)

Characters

黄

Examples

十九世纪的人种学把人分为黄种、白种和黑种。

Shíjiǔ shìjì de rénzhǒngxué bǎ rén fēn wéi huángzhǒng, báizhǒng hé hēizhǒng.

Nineteenth-century racial science divided humans into yellow, white, and black races.

黄种人多分布在东亚和东南亚。

Huángzhǒngrén duō fēnbù zài Dōngyà hé Dōngnányà.

The 'yellow race' (dated term) is distributed mainly across East and Southeast Asia.

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黄种 belongs to a 19th-century racial classification system (黄/白/黑/棕/红种) that's now considered outdated and pseudoscientific in the West, but the term is still used neutrally in Chinese popular discourse. 黄种人 (huángzhǒngrén) literally describes East Asian phenotype. Be aware that an English calque ('the yellow race') sounds offensive in modern English contexts; use 'East Asian' in translation.