回鹘

回鶻

Huíhú

proper noun

Meanings

1 Huihu, the name of the medieval Uyghurs and their steppe khaganate from 788, ancestors of today's Uyghurs and Yugurs

Characters

Examples

HSK 6

回鹘是维吾尔族的祖先。

Huíhú shì Wéiwú'ěrzú de zǔxiān.

The Huihu were ancestors of the Uyghurs.

HSK 7-9

840年，回鹘被黠戛斯打败，开始向西迁徙。

Bā sì líng nián, Huíhú bèi Xiájiásī dǎbài, kāishǐ xiàng xī qiānxǐ.

In 840 the Huihu were defeated by the Kyrgyz and began to migrate west.

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history

Until 788 the name was written 回纥; that year the khagan asked the Tang court to write 回鹘 instead, after the 鹘 falcon, "swift and fierce as a falcon". After the khaganate fell in 840, one group founded a kingdom at 高昌 near Turpan and another settled in Gansu, ancestors of the 裕固族.

Stroke Order

回 huí

鹘 hú