FUKIEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Fukien mean? 

• FUKIEN (noun)
  The noun FUKIEN has 1 sense:

1. any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province

  Familiarity information: FUKIEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FUKIEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Amoy; Fukien; Fukkianese; Hokkianese; Min; Min dialect; Taiwanese

Hypernyms ("Fukien" is a kind of...):

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)