民族
Pinyin: mín zú
ethnic group
Example sentence
中国有很多民族。
Zhōngguó yǒu hěn duō mínzú.
China has many ethnic groups.
What 民族 means
民族 (mín zú) is an Chinese word meaning “ethnic group”. It belongs to the Concepts & Ideas topic and appears at HSK 3 (and again in HSK 4), so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.