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Fujianese
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English
Alternative forms
en Fukienese
Etymology
From en Fujian ese.
Adjective
Of or relating to the province of Fujian in China.
en March 22, 1981 Chinese opera delights audience at international arts festival Free China Weekly 自由中國週報 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1981-03-22_22_11/ XXII 11 Taipei 0016-0318 1786626 2 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1981-03-22_22_11/page/n1/ 1 Because Fukienese has many spoken dialects, the province has a diversity of operatic styles. Fukienese Opera usually refers to the style prevalent in Fuchou and in the northern and eastern parts of the province. on
en 2000 Wen Shu Lee In Search of My Mother's Tongue: From Proverbs to Contextualized Sensibility Myron W. Lustig; w:Jolene Koester AmongUS: Essays on Identity, Belonging, and Intercultural Competence https://archive.org/details/amongusessaysoni00lust/ w:Longman 0-321-04920-9 99-31067 879232321 9355878M 55 https://archive.org/details/amongusessaysoni00lust/page/55/ Taiwanese is a dialect from the Fu Jian province in China. The majority of Taiwanese people are descendants of Fujianese settlers who immigrated from China to Taiwan in the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries.
en April 30, 2004 Bob Mackin Travel Story - In a nutshell https://web.archive.org/web/20230920111049/https://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/travel/travel-story-in-a-nutshell-2466701 20 September 2023 https://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/travel/travel-story-in-a-nutshell-2466701 w:Pique Newsmagazine Travel The crisp, mildly sweet water chestnut – "bee-chee" in Mandarin – is the biggest export from the Kuantien district in central Tainan County. The 130-year-old, white and red brick, southern Fujianese-style house is Kuantien’s biggest tourist magnet because it was the boyhood home of Chen Shui-bian.
Noun
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en chiefly in the plural A person from Fujian.
en 2008 Michel Hockx; Kirk A. Denton Literary Societies of Republican China Lexington Books 9780739119341 33 Tcheng, a Fujianese, was the first to enthusiastically introduce the poetic competition to a Western audience; he associated it with Western sports to help explain it as a form of entertainment and sociability.
Usage notes
Synonyms
dated en Hokkien
Hyponyms
en Hokkien, en Fukien / en Fookien, en Hoklo
en Hokchiu / en Hokchew, en Foochow, en Foochownese
en Hokchia / en Hockchia
en Hinghwa / en Henghua