Fukien

Meanings

1. Alternative form of Fujian.
2. The Hokkien language.
3. any Sinitic variety spoken in the Fujian province of China, particularly Hokkien or Foochow varieties.

1. A (member of a) group of Han Chinese people whose traditional ancestral homes are in southern Fujian, South China, especially those that ancestrally spoke the Hokkien language.

1. Of or relating to the province of Fujian in China, the Fujianese people, or the Hokkien language.

Etymology

From the Postal Romanization of the Nanjing court dialect Mandarin 福建 (Fújiàn), from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ]. Doublet of Hokkien. Compare Spanish Fokien, Portuguese Foquiem.