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Fukiens

Fukiens is the plural of Fukien.

Meaning of Fukien

Noun

Fukien (plural Fukien or Fukiens)

  1. (Philippines) A (member of a) group of Han Chinese people whose traditional ancestral homes are in southern Fujian, South China, especially those that ancestrally spoke the Hokkien language.
    • The Fukiens are to-day the most numerous of the Chinese race in Johore, Kelantan and the Straits Settlements. Taking British Malaya as a whole, there are 39 Chinese in every hundred of the population, while the percentage of Malays is 37.5 ...1954, Huang Tsen-ming, The Legal Status of the Chinese Abroad

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Questions about Fukiens

What is Fukiens the plural of?
Fukiens is the plural of Fukien.

Words near Fukiens in the dictionary

  1. Fukaya
  2. fuked
  3. fuki
  4. Fukien
  5. Fukienese
  6. Fukiens
  7. fukinane
  8. fukinanes
  9. fuking
  10. fukk
  11. Fukou

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