Fujianese

Fujianese adjective: of or relating to the province of Fujian in China.

Adjective

Fujianese (comparative more Fujianese, superlative most Fujianese)

Of or relating to the province of Fujian in China.
- Because Fukienese has many spoken dialects, the province has a diversity of operatic styles. Fukienese Opera usually refers to the style prevalent in Fuchou and in the northern and eastern parts of the province.[1981 March 22, “Chinese opera delights audience at international arts festival”, in Free China Weekly [自由中國週報], volume XXII, number 11, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 1
- Taiwanese is a dialect from the Fu Jian province in China. The majority of Taiwanese people are descendants of Fujianese settlers who immigrated from China to Taiwan in the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries.2000, Wen Shu Lee, “In Search of My Mother's Tongue: From Proverbs to Contextualized Sensibility”, in Myron W. Lustig, Jolene Koester, editors, AmongUS: Essays on Identity, Belonging, and...

Fujianese (plural Fujianese)

(in plural) A person from Fujian.
- Tcheng, a Fujianese, was the first to enthusiastically introduce the poetic competition to a Western audience; he associated it with Western sports to help explain it as a form of entertainment and sociability.2008, Michel Hockx, Kirk A. Denton, Literary Societies of Republican China, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 33
Synonyms:

Hokkien

From Fujian + -ese.

What does Fujianese mean?: Fujianese means of or relating to the province of Fujian in China.
What part of speech is Fujianese?: Fujianese can be an adjective or a noun.

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