A general term for Non-Chinese people in the north and northwest, especially the Xiongnu 匈奴. It is interesting to see that many ethnologically very distant nomad tribes and peoples of Inner Asia – either appearing in Europe or in China - have names beginning with [hu] like the Huns, the Hu, the Xiongnu [old: “Hung-nu”], or the Hungarians. The Hu were divided into Eastern Hu (Donghu 東胡) and Western Hu (Xihu 西胡).