Fujhou

English

Etymology

From the Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 福州 (Fúzhōu) Tongyong Pinyin romanization: Fújhou.

Proper noun

Fujhou

  1. Alternative form of Fuzhou
    • 2005, Wu Mi-cha, editor, 台湾史10講 [Ten Short Talks on Taiwan History], →ISBN, OCLC 64034604, page 95:
      1887 Guangsyu Year 13 The government begins to build railways. Undersea telegraph cables are laid between Taiwan and Fujhou, Fujian Province.
    • 2007, A Girl From Shanghai: The Story of Lillian Hsu, a Medical Geneticist, a NTU Medical College Alumna, →ISBN, OCLC 213361324, page 254:
      After boarding a different plane in Hong Kong, we finally arrived in Fujhou one and a half hours later. []
      He said he was fortunate to get sick in his hometown, Fujhou. If he had gotten sick in Hangjhou, which was to be his second stop in China, he probably would not have made it. In Fujhou, he knew many high officials in the Department of Health and one of the leading cardiologists was his high school classmate.
    • 2008, “How to Catch a Moonbeam: A Mixed-methods Approach to Understanding Ethnic Socialization Processes in Ethnically Diverse Families”, in Handbook of Race, Racism, and the Developing Child, →ISBN, LCCN 2007020667, OCLC 132584811, page 239:
      Mae, born in Fujhou in the Fujian Province in China, and her daughter Michelle, born in the United States, both have high values on quantitative measures of cultural socialization.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Fujhou.
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