吉卜赛人

吉卜賽人
Jíbǔsàirén
noun #32,419

Meanings

  1. 1 Gypsy
  2. 2 Romani person
  3. 3 member of the Roma people

Examples

Jíbǔsàirén yuán yú gǔ Yìndù, hòulái qiānyí dào Ōuzhōu.
The Roma originated in ancient India and later migrated to Europe.
Diànyǐng lǐ yǒu yī qún Jíbǔsàirén zài tiàowǔ.
In the film, a group of Gypsies are dancing.

Tips

culture
(Jíbǔsài) is the standard Mandarin transliteration of 'Gypsy'. Today many publications use 罗姆 (Luómǔrén, from 'Roma') as the more accurate, less freighted term — same shift as in English from 'Gypsy' to 'Romani/Roma'. 吉卜赛人 still appears widely in older translations of European literature and film subtitles.
usage
Phonetic mapping: (jí, 'gy/gi'), (bǔ, 'p'), (sài, 'sy/se'), (rén, 'people'). The chosen characters happen to mean 'lucky / divination / contest', but they're sound-only here.

Stroke Order

sài
rén