waishengren
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
a category of people and their descendants who fled mainland China for Taiwan after 1945 in response to the Nationalists losing the Chinese Civil War; sometimes regarded as an ethnic group.
name
Alternative letter-case form of waishengren (“migrants from Mainland China to Taiwan post-1945 and their descendants.”).
Example Sentences
- "What surprised me was that it was not a "waishengren" who had such a deep consciousness of Chinese history, but a "bensheng-ren"[...]Many Japanese people residing in Taiwan, including myself, receive a lot of help from benshengren, who are fluent in Japanese. We often hear them complain about waishengren and China, while they appear to cherish Japan."
- "Recent studies and surveys have shown that most of the Waishengren have already taken this opportunity and are gravitating toward a “New Taiwanese” identity."
- "The tsunami of around 1.5 million exiles who accompanied Chiang to Taiwan produced two castes: benshengren — people from this province — and waishengren — people from outside this province[...]Nancy’s father identified as Chinese, waishengren from Jiangxi Province, like his father before him."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 外省人