백인종白人種
[ baeginjong ]
「명사」 Noun
• White race; Caucasian race
a historical anthropological term describing a group of people, mainly from North Africa, Europe, and South Asia. In the English-speaking tradition, it is known as the Caucasian race, named by German anthropologist Johann Blumenbach, who considered the Caucasus to be the place of origin of white people.
Type:
Sino-Korean
Level:
Intermediate
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