The story
- Mandarin · borrowed from福建
- English todayFookien
From the Postal Romanization of the Nanking court dialect Mandarin 福建 (Fújiàn), from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ]. See also Foochow, Fooching, Soochow. Compare Spanish Fokien.
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.