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Fuh-chau

Fuh-chau is the archaic form of Fuzhou.

Meaning of Fuzhou

Proper noun (1)

Fuzhou

  1. A prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Fujian, China.
    • At the end of August Eaton anchored at a group of three small islands off the coast of Fujian to take on fresh water, as the casks had not been refilled since leaving the Cape in April. Cuninghame calls these islands the Crocodile Islands, but he says the Chinese call them the ‘Pek-kin Islands’....2007, Jane Kilpatrick, “The first collector”, in Gifts from the Gardens of China: The Introduction of Traditional Chinese Garden Plants to Britain 1698-1862, Frances Lincoln Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC...

Proper noun (2)

Fuzhou

  1. A prefecture-level city in northeastern Jiangxi, China.
    • The blasts occurred in the city of Fuzhou in Jiangxi Province between 9 and 9:45 a.m., according to the government posting, which appeared on the province’s propaganda bureau Web site. The first one was at the Fuzhou Procurator’s Office, the second at the Linzhuan District government building and...2011 May 26, Edward Wong, “Series of Blasts Leaves at Least 2 Dead in Southern Chinese City”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 May 2011, Asia Pacific

Questions about Fuh-chau

What is Fuh-chau the archaic form of?
Fuh-chau is the archaic form of Fuzhou.

Words near Fuh-chau in the dictionary

  1. fuguist
  2. fuguists
  3. fugutoxin
  4. fuh
  5. fuh sheezy
  6. Fuh-chau
  7. fuhgedaboudit
  8. fuhgedaboutit
  9. fuhgeddaboud
  10. fuhgeddaboudit
  11. fuhgeddaboutit

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Fuh-chau (page history and authors); Fuzhou (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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