noun
Mohe; Tungusic tribe
Archaic term for the Mohe, a Tungusic people mentioned in ancient Chinese and Japanese records. See also 靺鞨 (まっかつ).
See also: 靺鞨
勿吉は古代中国の文献に登場する民族の一つである。
The Mohe are one of the ethnic groups that appear in ancient Chinese documents.
靺鞨 is another historical term for the same Tungusic people, often used interchangeably with 勿吉.
The term 勿吉 is a historical Chinese exonym for the Mohe people. The exact derivation is uncertain; it is a phonetic transcription of a foreign ethnonym.