Huns

i'm in the library reading a book called "the invasion of Europe by the barbarians" which describes the clash between northern nomads such as the Germans and the southern European empire namely Rome. and this bit of information is interesting:

The Huns belong to the Mongolian division of the great group of races which also includes the Turks, the Hungarians, and the Finns. It may be called the Ural-Altaic race Group, and is divided into two great sections, the Uralic and the Altaic. The Uralic Section falls into three classes: (1)the Finnic, of which the Finns are the best known representative: (2) the Permian (3) the Ugrian, of which the Hungarians are the most important. The Altaic section falls into several classes , of which one is the Turkish and another the Mongolian. This classification is based on a comparison of the Language of these People.
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Our knowledge, such as it is, of the early history of central Asia is derived from the annals of China. From these records we know that in the third and early fourth centuries the dominating people in these regions was the Sien-pi, and that towards the middle of the fourth century their power was overthrown by the Zhu-zhu, who succeeded them to the dominion of Tartar Asia, and finally founded a great empire extdnding from the coast of the North Pacific, from Corea to the borders of Europe. It may be suppose that it was events connected with the rise to power of the Zhu-zhu that disturbed the Huns and induced them to move westward.
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The name Huns, Greek ounnoi, is generally supposed to be a corruption of the word Hiung-nu-the name, meaning common slaves, that was given by the Chinese to all the nomadic people of Asia.

so what, did chinese give the name Hun to the Hungarians? i'd always thought all these weird words were transliteration from the babarian tongue. this is new to me. isn't it interesting?