Hokchia
Hokchia proper noun: fuqing Eastern Min (a linguistic variety of Eastern Min under Min Chinese of the Sinitic family).
Proper noun
Hokchia
- Fuqing Eastern Min (a linguistic variety of Eastern Min under Min Chinese of the Sinitic family)
- Soon afterward, there arrived a twenty-year-old migrant named Liem Sioe Liong, from the port of Fooching. Folks there speak Hokchia, a subgroup of the Hokchiu. When Hokchia speakers go overseas, they tend to cluster.1995, Sterling Seagrave, Lords of the Rim: The Invisible Empire of the Overseas Chinese, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 191
- Fuzhou is the dialect of those from around Fuzhou city in the northern tip of Fujian, Hokchia is the closely related dialect of those from the area around nearby Fuqing, and Henghua is the dialect of those from the Putian area, also in northern Fujian2001, Michael Backman, Asian Eclipse: Exposing the Dark Side of Business in Asia, Rev. edition, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 197
- a person who traces his/her ancestry to Fuqing or the surrounding area
- Members of these groups can be found everywhere but most of Southeast Asia’s Fuzhou Chinese are to be found in Malaysia, particularly in Sarawak, and most of the Hokchia are to be found in Indonesia.2003, Michael Backman, Charlotte Butler, Big in Asia: 25 Strategies for Business Success, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 27
- In 1990, for the first time since leaving in 1981, He went back and, together with his younger brother, who had remained in Fuqing, invested in an electric wire company. He stresses that he was one of the first to invest in Fuqing after the investments made by Liem Sioe Liong, the Indonesian...2004, Frank N Pieke et al., Transnational Chinese: Fujianese Migrants in Europe, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 161
Adjective
Hokchia (not comparable)
- of or relating to Fuqing Eastern Min
Examples of Hokchia in a sentence
- He stresses that he was one of the first to invest in Fuqing after the investments made by Liem Sioe Liong, the Indonesian Hokchia tycoon.2004, Frank N Pieke et al., Transnational Chinese: Fujianese Migrants in Europe, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN...
- Grandfather and another man built the first Hokchia School on grandfather's section of the Hokchia settlement.2017, Stephen Ling, Growing Up Chinese, Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 15:
Forms of Hokchia
| alternative form | Hockchia |
|---|---|
| alternative form | Hock Chia |
| alternative form | Hok-chia |
Origin of Hokchia
From Hokkien 福清 (Hok-chhiaⁿ).
Questions about Hokchia
- What does Hokchia mean?
- Hokchia means fuqing Eastern Min (a linguistic variety of Eastern Min under Min Chinese of the Sinitic family).
- How do you use Hokchia in a sentence?
- He stresses that he was one of the first to invest in Fuqing after the investments made by Liem Sioe Liong, the Indonesian Hokchia tycoon.
- What part of speech is Hokchia?
- Hokchia can be a proper noun or an adjective.
Words near Hokchia in the dictionary
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