English Dictionary |
FUKKIANESE
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
Dictionary entry overview: What does Fukkianese mean?
• FUKKIANESE (noun)
The noun FUKKIANESE has 1 sense:
1. any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province
Familiarity information: FUKKIANESE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("Fukkianese" 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)
Learn English with... Proverbs |
"Red sky at night: sailor's delight. Red sky in the morning: sailor take warning." (English proverb)
"Feed a dog to bark at you." (Bulgarian proverb)
"Hunger is an infidel." (Arabic proverb)
"Homes among homes and grapevines among grapevines." (Corsican proverb)
"Feed a dog to bark at you." (Bulgarian proverb)
"Hunger is an infidel." (Arabic proverb)
"Homes among homes and grapevines among grapevines." (Corsican proverb)