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Fooching
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English
Etymology
From the en zh-postal - of en cmn 福清 Fúqīng.
Pronunciation
en /ˌfuːˈt͡ʃɪŋ/
Proper noun
en archaic en Fuqing.
en 1873 The Foreign Missionary 31 280 Address on 'Self-support' Delivered by Rev. Hu Young Mi, at the Self-support Anniversary, held during the session of the eleventh annual meeting of the mission, in Fooching city.
en 1923 Ta Chen Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics 340 15 https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/3988 In recent years, the district of Fooching has sent out about 20,000 people, or about one thirty-third of its total population. https://web.archive.org/web/20191224003248/https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/3988 24 December 2019
en https://archive.org/details/lordsofrim0000seag/ 1995 w:Sterling Seagrave Lords of the Rim w:Bantam Press 0-593-02907-0 36386932 182 https://archive.org/details/lordsofrim0000seag/page/182/ Soon afterward, there arrived a twenty-year-old migrant named Liem Sioe Liong, from the port of Fooching. People there speak Hokchia, a subgroup of the Hokchiu. When Hokchia speakers go overseas, they tend to cluster. Today, thanks in large part to Liem, the Hokchia are one of the wealthiest groups of Chinese in the world. Many are in textiles, where they have their own kongsi, the Yu Yong, with its own secret army.
Anagrams
en cfghinoo choofing