Huanna

Huan-a () is a Hokkien-language term used by Hokkien speakers in multiple countries, namely Mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, etc. The word itself when dissected means , + , but to the ethnic Chinese that settled overseas in Taiwan and Maritime Southeast Asia, it soon came to refer to native Southeast Asians and Taiwanese aborigines.

== Etymology == The Hokkien word itself when dissected means, , + , resulting in Hokkien , originally from the perspective of ethnic Chinese referring to non-Chinese people, especially historically natives of Taiwan and Southeast Asia. In Taiwan, the aboriginal group Hoanya retains an older form of the word, where the second syllable retained the obsolete diminutive suffix, , in Hokkien, which originally came from a weak form of and today survives in Hokkien as the diminutive suffix, . "" is attested in the Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum (1626–1642) and use of the obsolete suffix is also recorded in Medhurst (1832).