Afterward from the middle ages to the early-modern times, '倭' was sometimes used to refer to the Yamato race by Chinese (please refer to "wako" (Japanese pirates) as an example).
その後中世から近世にかけても、中国から大和民族を指す場合には「倭」と呼ぶことがあった（→例えば倭寇を参照）。