Di (Five Barbarians)

Di
Total population
assimilated into Han (Baima may be descended from Di)
Regions with significant populations
northern China
Languages
Di
Related ethnic groups
Qiang? Baima?

The Di (Chinese: ; pinyin: ; Wade–Giles: Ti1;[1] < Eastern Han Chinese *tei[2] < Old Chinese (B-S): *tˤij) were an ancient ethnic group that lived in western China, and are best known as one of the non-Han Chinese peoples known as the Five Barbarians that seized power in northern China during the Sixteen Kingdoms period. This ethnic group should not be confused with the earlier (狄), which refers to unrelated nomadic peoples in northern China during the earlier Zhou dynasty. The Ba-Di (巴氐) were a branch of the Di that intermixed with another ethnic group known as the Cong people (賨).

  1. ^ "汉典".
  2. ^ Schuessler, Axel. 2007. An Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese. University of Hawaii Press. p. 209

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