Fujian
See also: Fújiàn
English
Etymology 1
From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 福建 (Fújiàn).
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌfuːˈd͡ʒæn/, /ˌfuːd͡ʒiˈæn/
Proper noun
Fujian
- A province of People's Republic of China, located on the southeastern coast. Capital: Fuzhou.
- 1998 May, Li HongZhi, CHINA FALUN GONG (REVISED EDITION) (English Version), Hong Kong: Falun Fo Fa Publishing Co., →ISBN, OCLC 754094128, page 43:
- According to the county annals of Yong Tai in Fujian Province, Chen Jun was born in the first year of Zhong-He time (881 AD.) under the reign of Empire Xi-Zong during the Tang Dynasty.
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- A province of the Republic of China (Taiwan), consisting of Kinmen (Quemoy) and Matsu (Lienchiang).
- 2019 June 4, “Kinmen Shueitou Harbor District”, in National Fire Agency, archived from the original on 20 September 2020:
- Kinmen is under the jurisdiction of Fujian Province, and is composed of 16 big and small islands with a total area of 178.956 square kilometers, while the geology is composed of granite-gneiss.
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Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
province of China
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References
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfuːd͡ʒi.ən/
Further reading
- “Fujian”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “Fujian, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- Fujian at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “Fujian”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
- “Fujian” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.
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