Hoklos

Noun

Hoklo (plural Hoklos or Hoklo)

1. A member of a group of Han Chinese whose traditional ancestral homes are in southern Fujian, South China.
   • Growing up in the countryside of Tainan County, the village was almost entirely populated by Hoklo people, with no Hakkas, no mainlanders, and even less chance of aborigines settling there.2000, Chen Shui-Bian, translated by David J. Toman, The Son of Taiwan: The Life of Chen Shui-Bian and His Dreams for Taiwan, Taiwan Publishing Co., Ltd., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 228
2. (obsolete) A member of a Southern Min-speaking Chinese people who inhabit or originate from eastern Guangdong; (loosely) Teochew.
   • From our friends and others, we gathered the following information concerning the number of inhabitants. Malays 6000, Bugis 5000, Fuhkeën and other Chinese 100 families, Hok-lo 1000 families, Khĕh 500 families.1840, E. Doty, W. J. Pohlman, “Tour in Borneo”, in The Chinese Repository, volume VIII, number 6, Canton, page 309

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