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Hui Long Agriculture

Hui Long Agriculture, formally Anhui Huilong Agricultural Means Group (辉隆股份), is a Shenzhen-listed Chinese company that acquired fine-chemicals maker Anhui Haihua in 2019, producing m-cresol, BHT, and L-menthol.

Hui people (回族)

The Hui people (回族, Huizu) are a Chinese Muslim ethnic group formed from Arab, Persian, and Central Asian traders, numbering over 10 million and centered in Ningxia.

Hui Ruoqi

Hui Ruoqi (惠若琪), born 1991 in Dalian, is a retired Chinese outside hitter who captained China to the Rio 2016 Olympic volleyball gold after placing fifth at London 2012; she retired in 2018 and founded the Volleyball Amateur League.

Hui Shi

Hui Shi (惠施) was a Warring States period philosopher and statesman of the School of Names, known for his paradoxes and his friendship with Zhuang Zi.

Hui Ying Yang

Hui Ying Yang is a materials scientist who became a professor at the National University of Singapore in 2025, known for sodium-ion and desalination batteries.

Hui Zheng

Hui Zheng is a neuroscientist and mouse geneticist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, known for pioneering mouse models of APP and presenilins in Alzheimer's disease.

Hui-Kuan Lin

Hui-Kuan Lin (林慧观) is a Taiwanese cancer biologist known for work on ubiquitination and metabolism in cancer, a professor at Duke University elected an Academician of Academia Sinica in 2022.

Hui-Young Lee

Hui-Young Lee is a South Korean scientist who studies insulin resistance, mitochondrial function, and diabetes, and co-authored the 2014 Nature paper on how metformin works.

Huia

Huia (Yang, 1991) is a ranid frog genus, now restricted to the Bornean Sabah Huia frog, Huia cavitympanum; formerly five species, split into Huia and Wijayarana in 2021. Not the extinct New Zealand huia bird.

Huia Publishers

Huia Publishers is a Māori-owned independent publisher in Wellington, New Zealand, founded in 1991 by Robyn and Brian Bargh to publish Māori writers and books in te reo Māori.

Huib J. Bakker

Huib J. Bakker is a Dutch physicist at AMOLF in Amsterdam, a pioneer of femtosecond vibrational spectroscopy who was the first to apply it to liquid water in 1997.

Huibu

Huibu (慧布, 518–587) was a Chinese Sanlun Buddhist monk at Qixia Temple on Mount She, known for Madhyamaka study, meditation, and a vow never to lecture.

Huice

Huice, originally named Wangdiantong, is a Beijing-based Chinese smart retail SaaS company selling e-commerce ERP software; it raised a US$312 million Series D led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 in 2021.

Huichang Persecution of Buddhism

The Huichang Persecution of Buddhism (會昌滅佛), also called the Huichang calamity of the Dharma, was a suppression of Buddhism under Tang emperor Tangwuzong, peaking in 845.

Huichizi (Paper Currency Office)

Huichizi (会子局) was the Southern Song government office at Lin'an that printed and reissued the huizi, the paper currency of South China, founded in 1161 and active until the dynasty's fall in 1279.

Huichol yarn painting

Huichol yarn painting is a Mexican art form made by the Huichol (Wixáritari) people, who press colorful yarn into beeswax on wooden boards to depict gods, myths, and shamanic visions.

Huici

Huici (慧次, 434–490) was a Chinese Buddhist monk-scholar of the Liu Song and Southern Qi dynasties, famed for lecturing on the Chengshi lun and the Three Treatises at Xie Monastery in Jiankang.

Huida

Huida (慧达), in lay life Liu Sahe, was a Chinese Buddhist monk of the fourth and fifth centuries credited with discovering two Aśoka stupas and prophesying the Fanhe Buddha image.

HuidaGene Therapeutics

HuidaGene Therapeutics (辉大基因) is a clinical-stage gene-editing and gene-therapy biotechnology company headquartered in Shanghai with a New Jersey presence, founded in 2018, known for CRISPR RNA-editing therapies for retinal, neurological, and neuromuscular diseases.

Huifa City Site

辉发城址 (Huifa city site): Ming-era walled capital of the Huifa tribe, one of the Hulun four Jurchen tribes, on Huifa Mountain, Huinan County, Jilin. Three concentric walls (about 596.5, 892.3, 1,884 m), taken by Nurhaci in 1607; national heritage site since 2006.

Huigu New Materials (广州慧谷新材料科技股份有限公司)

Huigu New Materials (广州慧谷新材料) is a Chinese maker of functional resins and coating materials, founded in Guangzhou in 1999 and listed on the ChiNext board in 2026.

Huiguan

Huiguan (慧观) was a fourth- and fifth-century Chinese Buddhist monk and leading disciple of the translator Kumārajīva, known for China's first doctrinal classification of Buddhist teachings.

Huiguang

Huiguang (慧光) was a Northern Wei and Eastern Wei monk, died 538, who led early Chinese study of the Four Part Vinaya and founded the southern Dilun school.

Huiguo

Huiguo (惠果) was a Tang-dynasty Esoteric Buddhist master at Qinglong Temple in Chang'an who united the school's two lineages and taught the Japanese monk Kūkai.

Huihui calendar

The Huihui calendar, also called the Huihui lifa (回回曆法), is the Islamic astronomical system translated into Chinese under the Ming Hongwu emperor and used officially.

Huihui yaofang

Huihui yaofang (回回药方, "Muslim Medicinal Recipes") is a Chinese-language formulary of Islamic medicine compiled under Mongol rule; only 4 of its 36 juan survive, held at the National Library of China.

Huijazoo

Huijazoo is a Zapotec archaeological site on Cerro de la Campana, about 29 kilometers north of Oaxaca city, Mexico, best known for its elaborate Tomb 5.

Huiji

Huiji (慧寂, 807–883), known as Yangshan Huiji, was a Chinese Chan Buddhist monk who with his teacher Guishan Lingyou founded the Guiyang house, earliest of the Five Houses of Chan.

Huijiao

Huijiao (慧皎, 497–554) was a Chinese Buddhist monk of the Liang dynasty, based at Jiaxiang Temple in Kuaiji, who compiled the Gaoseng zhuan, Biographies of Eminent Monks.

Huijong of Goryeo

Huijong of Goryeo (熙宗), personal name Wang Yeong, was the 21st king of Goryeo, reigning 1204–1211 as a figurehead under the military ruler Choe Chungheon.