Chinese Vietnamese

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Chinese Vietnamese or Vietnamese Chinese may refer to:

• Sino-Vietnamese, Chinese-derived vocabulary in the Vietnamese language
  • Hán Tự, classical Chinese writing produced in Vietnam
  • Chữ Nôm, an adaptation of Chinese characters used to write the Vietnamese language directly
• State-to-state relations between Vietnam and China, see:
  • Foreign relations of Vietnam
  • Foreign relations of the People's Republic of China
• The period of Chinese rule in the history of Vietnam
• Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979
• Ethnic Chinese in Vietnam:
  • Hoa, Chinese who immigrated to Vietnam during the Qing Dynasty and Republic of China period
  • Ngái, rural-dwelling Chinese speakers, counted separately from the Hoa
  • San Diu, the so-called "Mountain Chinese", who speak an archaic dialect of Cantonese
• Vietnamese people in China:
  • Gin people, one of the 55 officially-recognised ethnic minorities of the People's Republic of China
  • Vietnamese people in Hong Kong
• People of mixed Vietnamese and Chinese descent; prominent examples include:
  • Christy Chung, Hong Kong actress
  • Ching Hai, Vietnamese Buddhist and self-declared messiah