qiang

/K IY1 AA0 NG/
noun
  1. 1

    An ethnic group in China, living mainly in a mountainous region in the northwestern part of Sichuan on the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau.

  2. 2

    (historical) Any of various groups of people at different periods in ancient China, generally thought to have been of Tibetan-Burmese origin.