English

Alternative forms

• Jurched, Jurchet
• (uncommon): Jurgen

Noun

Jurchen ‎(usually uncountable, plural Jurchens)

1. (uncountable) A medieval and early modern Tungusic people, progenitors of the Manchus.
2. (countable) An individual member of the Jurchen people.

Synonyms

• Nurchen, Nuzhen, Nuzhi
• (inexact): Jin
• (obsolete): Eastern Tartars, Golden Tartars

Translations

Proper noun

Jurchen

1. An extinct East Asian language (code jur), related to Manchu.

Synonyms

• Nurchen

Translations

References

1. 1 2 Janhunen, Juha. "From Choson to Jucher: On the Possibilities of Ethnonymic Continuity in Greater Manchuria", Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia, Vol. 9, Krakow: Jagiellonian University Press, 2004, pp. 67 ff.
2. ↑ Aisin Gioro Ulhicun & al. "Manchuria from the Fall of the Yuan to the Rise of the Manchu State (1368–1636)", Ritsumeikan Bungaku, No. 601, 2007, p. 12.
3. ↑ Hoong Teik Toh, Materials for a Geneaology of the Niohuru Clan with Introductory Remarks on Manchu Onomastics, Aetas Manjurica, No. 10, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2005, 28.
4. ↑ Vajda, Edward. "Manchu (Jurchen)" for East Asian Studies 210: Introduction to Nomadic Cultures, Western Washington University, 2000.