Fuzhounese

English Alternative forms en Foochownese Etymology From en Fuzhou -n- -ese. Pronunciation en /ˌfud͡ʒoʊˈniz/ GA Adjective Of, from or pertaining to Fuzhou. en 2013 Kenneth J. Guest Bernard P. Wong; Chee-Beng Tan Chinatowns around the World: Gilded Ghetto, Ethnopolis, and Cultural Diaspora From Mott Street to East Broadway: Fuzhounese Immigrants and the Revitalization of New York's Chinatown Leiden and Boston Brill 42 https://books.google.com/books?id=WUOzAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA42 Since the early 1980s, Fuzhounese immigrants have been the primary force behind the transformation and revitalization of New York's Chinatown. Noun * en chiefly in the plural An inhabitant of Fuzhou; a person of Fuzhounese descent. en 2003 Kenneth J. Guest God in Chinatown: Religion and Survival in New York's Evolving Immigrant Community New York and London New York University Press 32 https://books.google.com/books?id=xR7QabcAYRIC&pg=PA32 A sixth wave, largely visible to the public, if not to the Fuzhounese themselves, is made up of children born in the United States but sent back to China as infants. en 2009 Danling Fu Jerrie Cobb Scott; Dolores Y. Straker; Laurie Katz Affirming Students' Right to Their Own Language: Bridging Language Policies and Pedagogical Practices New Chinese Immigrant Students' Literacy Development: From Heritage Language to Bilingualism New York Routledge 251 https://books.google.com/books?id=JleOAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA251 But actually we Fuzhounese are the hardest workers. We are working hard to change the bad impression the people have on us. I am glad I am a Fuzhounese, because we are the hardest workers among all immigrants. en 2013 Lee Khoon Choy Golden Dragon And Purple Phoenix: The Chinese and Their Multi-Ethnic Descendants in Southeast Asia Singapore World Scientific Publishing 461 https://books.google.com/books?id=wTa7CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA461 Conflict between the Ibans and the Fuzhounese were inevitable as such. A particular incident involving large influx of Fuzhounese into Sarawak as planters was worthy of mention. Usage notes Proper noun The dialect of Eastern Min that is spoken in Fuzhou. en 2010 Julie Y. Chu Cosmologies of Credit: Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China Durham and London Duke University Press 263 https://books.google.com/books?id=eKPyp60pOloC&pg=PA263 Nine months of intensive Fuzhounese lessons got me only so far in listening comprehension of the local chitchat in Longyan. Once I opened my mouth and needed to communicate predominantly in the national dialect of Mandarin (with a smattering of simple Fuzhounese), phenotype be damned—my foreignness was marked.