Hokchiang
Hokchiang proper noun: synonym of Fuqing: the Eastern Min-derived name.
Proper noun
Hokchiang
- Synonym of Fuqing: the Eastern Min-derived name.
- For the same year (1878) had witnessed a remarkable development at Hokchiang, to the south of Fuhchow, as well as amongst the places to the north of that city.1908, Frank L. Norris, China, A. R. Mowbray & Co., →OCLC, page 87
- On a Monday morning two missionaries came down to the beach of a little harbor on the Hokchiang coast and boarded a fishing-smack to go over to the Island of the Southern Sun.1912, S. Moore Sites, Nathan Sites: An Epic of the East, Fleming H. Revell Company, →OCLC, page 123
- Synonyms:
- Fuqing
Examples of Hokchiang in a sentence
- The women of the Hokchiang District made a “thank offering.”1948, Walter N. Lacy, A Hundred Years of China Methodism, Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, →OCLC, page 311:
- Lacy reported that in the Hokchiang (Futsing) District Christians were driven from their homes, their fields pillaged, fruit trees destroyed, and houses razed.1957, Wade Crawford Barclay, The Methodist Episcopal Church, 1845-1939, volume 3, New York: Board of Missions of The Methodist Church...
Synonyms of Hokchiang
Origin of Hokchiang
From Eastern Min 福清 (Hók-chiăng).
Questions about Hokchiang
- What does Hokchiang mean?
- Hokchiang means synonym of Fuqing: the Eastern Min-derived name.
- How do you use Hokchiang in a sentence?
- The women of the Hokchiang District made a “thank offering.”
- What part of speech is Hokchiang?
- Hokchiang is a proper noun.
Words near Hokchiang in the dictionary
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