Los Hui (en chino: 回族; pinyin: Huízú, Xiao'erjing: خُوِذُو/حواري, Dungan: Хуэйзў/Huejzw) son un grupo étnico de China con cultura musulmana. Hui es la forma abreviada del nombre completo “Huihui”. En todo el mundo hay doce millones y medio de personas pertenecientes a la etnia Hui, 10’5 millones de estos residen en China. Dentro de la República Popular de la China, hay un total de 56 grupos étnicos oficialmente reconocidos. La etnia mayoritaria es la Han (汉 Han). El resto corresponde sólo a unos 100 millones de los más de 1.300 habitantes. Por lo tanto, la comunidad Hui representa un 10% del grupo de etnias minoritarias. No obstante, tiene un reconocimiento por parte del gobierno bastante notable. Los Hui se concentran principalmente en China del Noroeste (Gansu, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Ningxia y Sinkiang) y en la Llanura Central aunque pueden encuentran en todo el país. La mayoría de los Hui son étnicamente y lingüísticamente similares a los Han, pero con las diferencias que supone pertenecer al Islam como una dieta sin cerdo, combinación de cocina y artes marciales diferenciadas de las chinas, musulmanas, etc. Respeto a la vestimenta, la diferencia es que los hombres llevan un sombrero blanco y las mujeres un pañuelo en la cabeza, y ocasionalmente un velo.

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The Hui people (Chinese: 回族; pinyin: Huízú; Wade–Giles: Hui2tsu2, Xiao'erjing: خُوِذُو; Dungan: Хуэйзў, Xuejzw) are a Chinese ethnic group which is composed predominantly of adherents of the Muslim faith and found throughout China, though they are concentrated mainly in the Northwestern provinces of the country and the Zhongyuan. According to a 2011 census, China is home to approximately 10.5 million Hui people, the majority of whom are Chinese-speaking practitioners of Islam, though some practice other religions. Hui people are ethnically and linguistically similar to Han Chinese with the exception that most of them practice Islam, engendering distinctive cultural characteristics. For example, as Muslims, they follow Islamic dietary laws and reject the consumption of pork, the most common meat consumed in China, and have given rise to their variation of Chinese cuisine. Their mode of dress differs primarily in that old men wear white caps and old women wear headscarves, as is the case in many Islamic cultures, however most of the young people of Hui ancestry are practically indistinguishable from mainstream Han Chinese. The Hui people are one of 56 ethnic groups recognized by China. The government defines the Hui people to include all historically Muslim communities not included in China's other ethnic groups. The Hui predominantly speak Chinese. In fact, the Hui ethnic group is unique among Chinese ethnic minorities in that it associates with no non-Sinitic language. The Hui people are more concentrated in Northwestern China (Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang), but communities exist across the country, e.g. Beijing, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Hainan, and Yunnan.

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