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Fukien

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Fu·kien 1  (fkyn)
See Fujian1.
Fu·kien 2  (fkyn) also Fu·kie·nese (fky-nz, -ns)
See Fujian2.
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Noun1.Fukien - any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province
Amoy, 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


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and spread throughout Fukien and Chekiang provinces as well as Hong Kong and Taiwan (Skinner 26).
Feng Shui, Astrology, and the Five Elements: Traditional Chinese ... by Hamilton, Patricia L. / MELUS
Eduard Vermeer, Chinese Local History: Stone Inscriptions from Fukien in the Sung to Ch'ing Periods (Boulder, 1991), 90-100.
BECOMING URBAN: MENDICANCY AND VAGRANTS IN MODERN SHANGHAI by Lu, Hanchao / Journal of Social History
Perhaps the most famous minority writer is Chin Shunshin, born and raised in Japan of Taiwanese parents who were originally from Fukien.
Multiethnic Japan and the monoethnic myth by Murphy-Shigematsu, Stephen / MELUS
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