Chinese clan
Hui () is a Chinese word, generally meaning 'conference', but which is sometimes used to refer to a secret society. It is often mutually interchangeable with terms like kongsi (), a term generally used to mean 'corporation' or 'company'. For overseas Chinese, kongsi can also denote a Chinese clan or a Chinese district assocaition (). The Hokkien-derived term "kongsi" (公司, ) is more widely known in Southeast Asia, however, whereas in China, the secret societies were just simply known as "hui".