Fujianese

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Fujian +‎ -ese

Adjective

Fujianese (comparative more Fujianese, superlative most Fujianese)

  1. Of or relating to the province of Fujian in China.
    • 2000, Wen Shu Lee, “In Search of My Mother's Tongue: From Proverbs to Contextualized Sensibility”, in Myron W. Lustig, Jolene Koester, editor, AmongUS: Essays on Identity, Belonging, and Intercultural Competence‎, Longman, →ISBN, LCCN 99-31067, OCLC 879232321, OL 9355878M, page 55:
      Taiwanese is a dialect from the Fu Jian province in China. The majority of Taiwanese people are descendants of Fujianese settlers who immigrated from China to Taiwan in the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries.

Noun

Fujianese (plural Fujianese)

  1. A person from Fujian.
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