clan that founded the dynasty were of Jurchen descent, it is also sometimes called the Jurchen dynasty or the Jurchen Jin. The empire covered much of Inner...

Jurchen (Manchu: ᠵᡠᡧᡝᠨ Jušen, IPA: [dʒuʃən]; Chinese: 女真, Nǚzhēn [nỳ.ʈʂə́n]) is a term used to collectively describe a number of East Asian Tungusic-speaking...

Jurchen may refer to: Jurchen people, Tungusic people who inhabited the region of Manchuria until the 17th century Haixi Jurchens, a grouping of the Jurchens...

The Jianzhou Jurchens (Chinese: 建州女真) were one of the three major groups of Jurchens as identified by the Ming dynasty. Although the geographic location...

The Jurchen language (Chinese: 女真語; pinyin: Nǚzhēn yǔ) was the Tungusic language of the Jurchen people of eastern Manchuria, the rulers of the Jin dynasty...

The Jurchen script (Jurchen: /dʒu ʃə bitxə/; Chinese: 女真文) was the writing system used to write the Jurchen language, the language of the Jurchen people...

were established and ruled by the Manchus, who are descended from the Jurchen people who earlier established the Jin dynasty (1115–1234) in northern...

series of conflicts between the Jurchen-led Jin dynasty (1115–1234) and the Han-led Song dynasty (960–1279). In 1115, Jurchen tribes rebelled against their...

Udegheic, Nanaic, and Jurchenic. Alexander Vovin notes that Manchu and Jurchen are aberrant languages within South Tungusic but nevertheless still belong...

The Wild Jurchens (Chinese: 野人女真) or Haidong Jurchens (Chinese: 海東女真) were a group of the Jurchens as identified by the Ming Dynasty. They were the northernmost...