# Qiang

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #62,432

## Definitions
1. An ethnic group in China, living mainly in a mountainous region in the northwestern part of Sichuan on the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau.
2. Any of various groups of people at different periods in ancient China, generally thought to have been of Tibetan-Burmese origin.

## Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 羌 (Qiāng).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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