Manchu
noun
Man·chu
ˈman-(ˌ)chü 
man-ˈ
plural Manchu or Manchus
1
: a member of an indigenous people of Manchuria who conquered China and established a dynasty there in 1644
2
: the Tungusic language of the Manchu people
Manchu
adjective
Examples of Manchu in a Sentence
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Jane Manchu Wong, who gained online notoriety for reverse-engineering incoming features for social media platforms before they were announced, joined Meta last year to work on its newest platform, Threads.
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Kali Hays, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2024
Vought film The Curse of Fu Manchu, our sister site Variety reports.
—Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 16 Oct. 2024
In this view, for example, people who are Manchu, Miao, or Tibetan are still Chinese.
—Odd Arne Westad, Foreign Affairs, 1 June 2021
The only major exception is over the Russian Far East, which Tsarist Russia took from the Manchu Qing Empire in 1860.
—Steve Tsang, TIME, 11 May 2024
In 1912, the British novelist Sax Rohmer, a white man, invented a character who epitomized the West’s fears and fantasies about the Orient: Dr. Fu Manchu.
—WIRED, 9 Aug. 2023
She was born in Beijing into the family of a Manchu prince who, after the violent 1911 collapse of the Qing Dynasty, sent her to be raised by his friend, a Japanese ultranationalist in Tokyo, who changed her name from Dongzhen.
—Scott Martelle, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
Certain Manchu customs were indeed imposed on the Han.
—Ian Buruma, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022
But the Manchu elite gradually absorbed Han culture.
—Ian Buruma, Harper's Magazine, 11 Jan. 2022
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Kali Hays, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2024
Vought film The Curse of Fu Manchu, our sister site Variety reports.
—Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 16 Oct. 2024
In this view, for example, people who are Manchu, Miao, or Tibetan are still Chinese.
—Odd Arne Westad, Foreign Affairs, 1 June 2021
The only major exception is over the Russian Far East, which Tsarist Russia took from the Manchu Qing Empire in 1860.
—Steve Tsang, TIME, 11 May 2024
In 1912, the British novelist Sax Rohmer, a white man, invented a character who epitomized the West’s fears and fantasies about the Orient: Dr. Fu Manchu.
—WIRED, 9 Aug. 2023
She was born in Beijing into the family of a Manchu prince who, after the violent 1911 collapse of the Qing Dynasty, sent her to be raised by his friend, a Japanese ultranationalist in Tokyo, who changed her name from Dongzhen.
—Scott Martelle, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
Certain Manchu customs were indeed imposed on the Han.
—Ian Buruma, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022
But the Manchu elite gradually absorbed Han culture.
—Ian Buruma, Harper's Magazine, 11 Jan. 2022
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Manchu
noun
Man·chu
ˈman-chü
man-ˈchü
1
: a member of an Indigenous people of Manchuria who conquered China and established a dynasty there in 1644
2
: the language of the Manchu people
Manchu
adjective
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