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HOKKIANESE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Hokkianese mean?
• HOKKIANESE (noun)
The noun HOKKIANESE has 1 sense:
1. any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province
Familiarity information: HOKKIANESE 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 ("Hokkianese" 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)
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