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Henghwa

Henghwa is the alternative form of Henghua.

Meaning of Henghua

Noun

Henghua (plural Henghuas)

  1. (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Southeast Asia) a person who traces his/her ancestry to Putian or the surrounding region
    • Apparently, a Henghua immigrant named Yeow in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, who had apprenticed himself to an agent for British cycles, learned the business thoroughly, left his employer, and established his own shop. Inevitably, his own (Henghua) employees hived off likewise so that within half a century...2009, Philip A. Kuhn, Chinese Among Others: Emigration in Modern Times, Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 48

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Forms of Henghwa

pluralHenghwas

Questions about Henghwa

What is Henghwa the alternative form of?
Henghwa is the alternative form of Henghua.

Words near Henghwa in the dictionary

  1. Hengevelds
  2. hengeyokai
  3. Hengfeng
  4. Henghua
  5. Henghuas
  6. Henghwa
  7. Henghwas
  8. hengiform
  9. Hengist
  10. Hengoed
  11. Hengqin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Henghwa (page history and authors); Henghua (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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