Fukien

English Alternative forms en Fu-kien Fu Kien Fu kien Fuh-kien Fuh-Kien Fuhkien archaic en Fuhkeen Fuhkeën obsolete en Fookien Philippines Etymology From the en zh-postal - of the Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca) Nanjing court dialect en cmn 福建 Fújiàn, from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].Kaske Elisabeth The Politics of Language in Chinese Education, 1895–1919 https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=okhrBBmnHVQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:9789004163676&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=peking&f=false 2008 Koninklijke Brill NV Leiden 978-90-04-16367-6 52 en Hokkien. Compare es Fokien, pt Foquiem. Pronunciation en /ˈfuːˈkjɛn/ US,Philippines en /ˈfuk.jɛn/ /ˈfuʔ.kjɛn/ Philippines en /fʊk̚ˈkiːn/ /fuːk̚ˈkiːn/ Hong Kong fo͞oʹkyěnʹ fo͞oʹjyěnʹen 1979 Fu·kien The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas https://archive.org/details/internationalgeo00houg/ Boston Houghton Mifflin Company 0-395-27170-3 79-2721 5171913 262 https://archive.org/details/internationalgeo00houg/page/262/ 2en 1952 Fukien or Fu-chien Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 649 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/649/ 2 Proper noun en dated en Fujian. en http://massline.org/PekingReview/PR1973/PR1973-19.pdf May 11, 1973 16 19 Taiwan Fisherman Compatriots Rescued w:Peking Review 4 10 December 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20190512060720/http://massline.org/PekingReview/PR1973/PR1973-19.pdf 12 May 2019 On April 27, 12 fishermen from a trawler of the Hsinhuatai Co. in Keelung City, Taiwan Province, that had sunk near the island of Tungyin because of an engine breakdown were rescued by fishermen of the Haifeng Brigade of the Huangchi People's Commune in Lienchiang County, Fukien Province. en https://archive.org/details/kanghsiconsolida0000kess/ 1976 K'ang-hsi and the Consolidation of Ch'ing Rule, 1661–1684 Lawrence D. Kessler 43–44 In the following year, over 30,000 people of T'ung-shan were evacuated. But during the rebellion of the three feudatories, when Cheng Ching again had a foothold on the mainland, the people of Fukien returned to their homes along the coast. en https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1977-07-24_18_29/ July 24, 1977 Freedom seeker says m'land people fight pigs for food T. K. Yang Free China Weekly XVIII 29 Taipei 2 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1977-07-24_18_29/page/n1/ Looking through the window into the misty morning sky over Taipei from his suite at a guest house on Yangmingshan on July 8, Fan Yuan-yen's eyes were filled with tears of joy-an experience that he had never before known. Just the day before, he had made a successful flight to freedom in a MIG19, from Chingkiang in Fukien Province on the Chinese mainland to an air force base in southern Taiwan. en 1985 Diana Lary Warlord Soldiers: Chinese Common Soldiers, 1911–1937 Cambridge University Press 9780521302708 135 An experience we had in a village called Liang-a, Fukien [Fujian] will give an idea of some of the present difficulties. en 1992 w:Richard Nixon The Pacific Triangle Seize the Moment https://archive.org/details/seizemomentameri00nixo/ w:Simon & Schuster 0-671-74343-0 91-37743 440652941 175 https://archive.org/details/seizemomentameri00nixo/page/175/ If the United States revoked MFN status, tariffs would skyrocket on the goods such as textiles, shoes, and toys that are primarily produced by private enterprises. Coastal provinces, such as Guangdong near Hong Kong and Fukien near Taiwan, that have served as the beachhead for free-market economics would suffer the worst blow. en https://archive.org/details/civilizations0000fern_d8n4/ 2001 w:Felipe Fernández-Armesto Civilizations w:Pan Books 0 330 48798 1 409 https://archive.org/details/civilizations0000fern_d8n4/page/409/ Opportunities to seaward, however risky, are more inviting than those on land. The first sign that those opportunities were being exploited is a rapid expansion of population indicated by censuses of the late seventh and eighth centuries. It may have been caused by refugees, attracted by the very inaccessibility of the region and content to farm as best they could on marginal and reclaimed lands. But by the ninth century there are numerous references in documents to the 'trade of the South Sea' on the Fukien coast. en 2008 October Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics Executive Yuan, Republic of China Land and Climate Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of China 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20210527213514/https://www.stat.gov.tw/public/data/051416124271.pdf 27 May 2021 Taipei 0256-7857 2591912 1 Taiwan, also know as Formosa, is an island about 160 kilometers off the southeast coast of mainland Chain. It is separated from Fukien Province on the mainland China by the Taiwan Straits. en 2009 Leonard H. D. Gordon Confrontation Over Taiwan: Nineteenth-Century China and the Powers Lexington Books 9780739118696 Resembling the shape of a tobacco leaf, Taiwan lies ninety miles off the coast of China and stretches nearly two hundred miles from north to south along the turbulent strait that bears its name separating the island from Fukien (Fujian) province ... en Introduction https://web.archive.org/web/20111020024625/https://www.ttcpb.gov.tw/ttp/english/ 20 October 2011 Taitung Police Precinct, Taitung County Police Bureau In addition to lowland aboriginals and mountain aboriginals, the residents primarily originate from the southern part of Fukien Province and Guangdong Province.The local residents primarily originate from the southern part of Fukien Province and make a living by fishing. Lang Yu Hsiang occupies an area of 45 square meters, accommodating 3144 persons, and has one police post and three police stations. en September 27, 2017 Gerrit van der Wees Taiwan’s history:student edition https://web.archive.org/web/20171002193144/http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2017/09/27/2003679216/2 02 October 2017 w:Taipei Times 1563-9525 464696902 Features 13 The period of Koxinga family rule was seen positively by those who felt that he had brought new immigrants from Fukien province to Taiwan to develop agriculture, laid the foundation of a new Han Chinese society and for introducing a preliminary schooling system at the site of the Confucius Temple in Tainan. en November 19, 2021 Dan Nakasone Featured Story – GETTING TO THE ROOT OF BENI IMO https://web.archive.org/web/20220128183108/https://www.thehawaiiherald.com/2021/11/19/featured-story-getting-to-the-root-of-beni-imo/ 28 January 2022 The Hawaiʻi Herald According to George Kerr’s book, “Okinawa, The History of an Island People,” beni imo was brought to Okinawa in 1606 by Noguni Sōkan, who was stationed at a Ryūkyū (Okinawa) trading post in the southern coastal district of the Fukien Province, China. en Philippines and Hong Kong The Hokkien language. en 2000 Norbert Weissinger Soul of the Algorithm https://books.google.com/books?id=Mh4HukzJ5hsC San Jose Authors Choice Press 0-595-13837-3 48369284 7546136M 39 https://books.google.com/books?id=Mh4HukzJ5hsC&pg=PA39 I thought it was faster than what they taught in school, but I've forgotten how to speak Fukien. en 2006 Jolan Hsieh Collective Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Identity-Based Movement of Plain Indigenous in Taiwan New York Routledge 0-415-97745-2 51 https://books.google.com/books?id=_eUDAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA51 Linguistically, the mainlanders speak Mandarin Chinese, the Fulow speak Fukien/Southern dialects, and the Hakka speak their own dialects. en 2016 Brian M. Howell Christianity in the Local Context: Southern Baptists in the Philippines New York Palgrave Macmillan 978-1-349-60332-9 52 https://books.google.com/books?id=kWIYDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA52 However, their first priority in the earliest years was language learning with the local Chinese population with whom they could practice Mandarin and Fukien. en February 2, 2022 Iris Gonzales Injecting young blood into the empire https://web.archive.org/web/20220203160925/https://www.philstar.com/business/2022/02/02/2157873/injecting-young-blood-empire 3 February 2022 w:The Philippine Star But more importantly, Capt. Stanley speaks the language of the Tan family, perhaps literally and otherwise. He is the son-in-law of the taipan, married to Tan’s daughter Lilybeth, also a veteran PAL pilot. He speaks fluent Mandarin, Cantonese, Fukien, English, and Filipino. en https://www.eng.cuhk.edu.hk/ENGE-TellingStories/A%20Linguistic%20History%20of%20Hong%20Kong%20FINAL.pdf A linguistic history of Hong Kong Telling Stories: Linguistic Diversity in Hong Kong 2022 J. G. Hansen Edwards This included the more than 1.4 million people from Shanghai, most of whom were speakers of Shanghainese; immigrants from Suzhou Province, who spoke Suzhounese, and immigrants from Fujian Province, who were speakers of Hokkien (also known as Fukien, Hoklo, or Southern Min). 8 September 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20251201053912/https://www.eng.cuhk.edu.hk/ENGE-TellingStories/A%20Linguistic%20History%20of%20Hong%20Kong%20FINAL.pdf 1 December 2025 en Hong Kong any Sinitic variety spoken in the Fujian province of China, particularly Hokkien or Foochow varieties. en https://www.census2021.gov.hk/doc/pub/21C_Articles_Use_of_Language.pdf 2021 Population Census Use of Language by Hong Kong Population Census and Statistics Department 2024 Census and Statistics Department Hong Kong Special Administration Region Other than Cantonese and Putonghua, the three most common Chinese dialects spoken by the Hong Kong population were Hakka, Fukien and Chiu Chau. https://web.archive.org/web/20260916094852/https://www.census2021.gov.hk/doc/pub/21C_Articles_Use_of_Language.pdf 16 September 2026 en Barry Sautman Today in Guangzhou, Tomorrow in Hong Kong? A Comparative Study of the Language Situation in Two Cities Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 207–232 26 January 2021 German Institute for Global and Area Studies Xinyi Xie Hakka, Chiu Chow, and Fukien were the most spoken OCDs, according to the by-census. Synonyms language en Hokkien, en Fookien, en Fukienese, en Fujianese, en Hoklo, en Amoy Hypernyms language en Southern Min, en Min Nan, en Minnan, en Quanzhou–en Zhangzhou, Chinchew–Changchew Hyponyms language en Taiwanese, en Quanzhou dialect, Chinchew, en Xiamen dialect, en Amoy, Xiamenese, en Zhangzhou dialect, Changchew Noun * s en Philippines A (member of a) group of Han Chinese people whose traditional ancestral homes are in southern Fujian, South China, especially those that ancestrally spoke the Hokkien language. en 1954 Huang Tsen-ming The Legal Status of the Chinese Abroad The Fukiens are to-day the most numerous of the Chinese race in Johore, Kelantan and the Straits Settlements. Taking British Malaya as a whole, there are 39 Chinese in every hundred of the population, while the percentage of Malays is 37.5 ... en 1955 Ernest Henry George Dobby Senior Geography for Malayans The differences between South Chinese clans have been jealously kept, particularly among the Fukiens who, in Malaya, are called Hokkien if from the Kiulung Valley near Amoy, Teochiu if from the Han Valley behind Chaochow and Swatow, ... en 1993 Tran Khanh The Ethnic Chinese and Economic Development in Vietnam Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 9789813016668 30 Whereas the Teochews in Thailand and Cambodia, and the Fukiens in the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia are the largest groups within their respective Chinese communities and hold the most powerful economic positions, ... en 2008 Ethnicity and Migration in the Mekong River Delta of Vietnam, 1975-2007 The Fukiens were skilled in trading, import and export, building ships and ocean shipping, intermediary business, running hotels and restaurants and manufacturing rubber products. Adjective - Of or relating to the province of Fujian in China, the Fujianese people, or the Hokkien language. en 1937 Handbook of the Pottery & Porcelain of the Far East in the Department of Oriental Antiquities and of Ethnography Robert Lockhart Hobson 118 A few more Fukien figures and groups are included in the porcelain showing European influences in Bay VI; and it is curious to note that in several cases the European figure is apparently credited with divine attributes. en 1976 The Overseas Chinese and the 1911 Revolution Yen Ching Hwang 9 Two of the schools were Cantonese while the other was Fukien. en 2004 The World of Caffeine Bennett Alan Weinberg; Bonnie K. Bealer The most celebrated tea of the Ming period was Fukien tea, grown in the hills of Wu I, which the Chinese believed could purify the blood and renew health. en 2013 The KMT Returns to Power: Elections in Taiwan 2008 to 2012 John Franklin Copper 148 The south is more rural, more provincial, and more Fukien Taiwanese. Derived terms en Fukienese References Further reading pn Tagalog Alternative forms tl Fookien Pukyen Fokien Etymology From the tl zh-postal - of the Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca) Nanjing court dialect tl cmn 福建 Fújiàn, from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].Kaske Elisabeth The Politics of Language in Chinese Education, 1895–1919 https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=okhrBBmnHVQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:9789004163676&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=peking&f=false 2008 Koninklijke Brill NV Leiden 978-90-04-16367-6 52 tl Hokkien. Compare es Fokien, pt Foquiem. Pronunciation Proper noun Fukyen the Hokkien language tl wikang Fukien Language of Fukien tl salitang Fukien Fukien language word; Fukien Language tl dated tl @former name of:tl:Fujian province in southeast c/China Noun Fukyen tl colloquial A group of Han Chinese people whose traditional ancestral homes are in southern Fujian, South China, especially those that ancestrally spoke the Hokkien language tl dated Any person from Fujian Adjective Fukyen of or relating to the province of Fujian in China tl colloquial of or relating to the Fujianese people tl colloquial of or relating to the Hokkien language Synonyms tl Hokkien tl Amoy Quotations tl References tl Demonyms Languages