Chuban

Chuban (Chuy, Yueban Ch. 悅般, or Üeban, Urpen) "Weak Huns" was the name used by Chinese historians for the Chuy tribes: Chuyue, Chumi, Chumuhun, and Chuban. They were also collectively named Chuyue (Pinyin: Chuyue, Ch. 處月 Chuyue = 'abode of the Moon '). The present endoethnonym of the Chuy descendents is Chuy Kiji, Turkic for "Chuy People". The Chuy tribes gained their own visibility after disintegration of the Eastern Hun state, because unlike the main body of the Northern Huns, who escaped from the Chinese sphere of knowledge, the Chuy tribes remained closer to China.