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Hokkien meaning in Myanmar

လက်ရှည်စကား lakhranyca.ka:

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Hokkien in Myanmar: လက်ရှည်စကား (lakhranyca.ka:), အင်္ကျီရှည်စကား (angkyihranyca.ka:). In English, Hokkien means a linguistic subgroup of the Southern Min (Min Nan) branch, of the Min branch, of the Sinitic (Chinese) branch, of the Sino-Tibetan language family which is mainly spoken in the south-eastern part of mainland China (Fujian province), Taiwan, and people of Hoklo descent elsewhere in the world, like in Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Southern Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Southern Vietnam, etc.

Myanmar words for Hokkien

dialect of the Chinese language
လက်ရှည်စကား lakhranyca.ka:, အင်္ကျီရှည်စကား angkyihranyca.ka:

English meaning of Hokkien

  1. proper noun A linguistic subgroup of the Southern Min (Min Nan) branch, of the Min branch, of the Sinitic (Chinese) branch, of the Sino-Tibetan language family which is mainly spoken in the south-eastern part of mainland China (Fujian province), Taiwan, and people of Hoklo descent elsewhere in the world, like in Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Southern Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Southern Vietnam, etc.
  2. proper noun The varieties of Hokkien spoken in mainland China, usually as opposed to Taiwanese Taigi spoken in Taiwan.
  3. noun A group of Han Chinese people whose traditional ancestral homes are in southern Fujian, South China, especially those that ancestrally spoke the Hokkien language.
  4. adjective Of or relating to the Fujianese people.

Full definition of Hokkien

Hokkien in a sentence

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Synonyms of Hokkien

Hokkien in other languages

Questions about Hokkien in Myanmar

What is the meaning of Hokkien in Myanmar?
Hokkien in Myanmar is လက်ရှည်စကား (lakhranyca.ka:), အင်္ကျီရှည်စကား (angkyihranyca.ka:).
Hokkien ရဲ့ အဓိပ္ပာယ်က ဘာလဲ။
Hokkien: လက်ရှည်စကား (lakhranyca.ka:), အင်္ကျီရှည်စကား (angkyihranyca.ka:).
What does Hokkien mean in English?
Hokkien means a linguistic subgroup of the Southern Min (Min Nan) branch, of the Min branch, of the Sinitic (Chinese) branch, of the Sino-Tibetan language family which is mainly spoken in the south-eastern part of mainland China (Fujian province), Taiwan, and people of Hoklo descent elsewhere in the world, like in Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Southern Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Southern Vietnam, etc.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hokkien (page history and authors), its translation table and English meanings. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Myanmar words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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