Amoy

A·moy ¹  (ä-moi)

See Xiamen.

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A·moy ²  (ä-moi, -moi)

n.

The variety of Chinese spoken in and around the city of Xiamen in Fujian province in southeast China.

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[After Amoy (Xiamen).]

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Amoy [əˈmɔɪ]

n

1. (Placename) a port in SE China, in Fujian province on Amoy Island, at the mouth of the Jiu-long River opposite Taiwan: one of the first treaty ports opened to European trade (1842). Pop.: 368 786 (1990 est.) Modern Chinese name Xiamen

2. (Linguistics / Languages) the dialect of Chinese spoken in Amoy, Taiwan, and elsewhere: a Min dialect

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Amoy - any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province Fukien, Fukkianese, Hokkianese, Min dialect, Taiwanese, Min Chinese - any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system