中国人

Pattern visualization

Examples

1. 中国人の同僚と話す。▶ —
   I talk with my Chinese colleague.
2. 中国人留学生が多い。▶ —
   There are many Chinese students.

Collocations

Mnemonic

Chuugokujin (中国人) is "Chinese person" — 中国 plus 人. Clusters around the term: chuugokujin ryuugakusei (Chinese students in Japan, around 110,000 in 2022 — Japans largest foreign-student group), kakyou (華僑, overseas Chinese diaspora), chuuka-kei (Japanese of Chinese descent who naturalized), hounichi chuugokujin (Chinese visitors to Japan, 9.59 million in pre-pandemic 2019 — the top inbound nationality, driving the bakugai or "explosive buying" phenomenon). Kakyou history in Japan: after the Meiji port openings of the 1870s, Chinatowns rose in Yokohama, Kobe, and Nagasaki — Yokohama Chuukagai (1872 founding, East Asias largest at roughly 0.2 km square with over 600 shops). Resident-Chinese statistics for 2023 hit about 780,000, the top foreign nationality, overtaking the 430,000 Koreans. Japans perception of Chinese stacks ancient cultural debt (the great kanji-Buddhism-Confucianism transmitter), modern conflict (1894-95 First Sino-Japanese War through 1945), and contemporary economic interdependence (1972 normalization, top trade partner, political tension, the bakugai tourism code). School textbooks balance the nicchuu (Japan-China) history. Against "Galapagos-ka" (Galapagos-ization, the metaphor for Japans insular IT market), Chinese megamarkets register as obligatory partners for Japanese IT and manufacturing. JLPT N5 chuugokujin integrates with social and economic clusters.

Quick check

1. Bakugai (爆買い) cultural phenomenon?

   • Mid-2010s Chinese tourists explosive shopping for Japanese electronics and cosmetics (peak 9.59M visitors in 2019)
   • Japanese workers binge drinking
   • Stock-market crash
   • Population boom