waishengren

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    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.

词源

From Mandarin 外省人 (wàishěngrén), literally "outside province people" (from the point of view that Taiwan was a province of the Republic of China and they were migrants from other provinces).

来源：wiktionary