回族
Huízú
Group
A Chinese people who are Muslim and make up about half of China’s Muslims.
What it means
The Hui, who number over ten million, are Chinese in language and culture and Muslim in religion, and live in every province, most densely in Ningxia and Gansu. They descend from Arab and Persian traders and from Chinese converts. The Great Mosque of Xi’an, in a Chinese temple style, is one of the oldest, from the eighth century.