Etymology

Fuhkien

F4U1H4K5I1E1N1
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The story

From the Postal Romanization of Nanking court dialect Mandarin 福建 (Fújiàn), from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.