Etymology

Koxinga

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Today it means: A Chinese-Japanese Ming loyalist who resisted the Qing conquest of China's southeastern coast. Full definition →

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The story

From a Portuguese transliteration of Taiwanese Hokkien 國姓爺/国姓爷 (Kok-sèng-iâ).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.