Meanings
- alternativearchaicAlternative form of Fuqing.
In recent years, the district of Fooching has sent out about 20,000 people, or about one thirty-third of its total population.
1923, Ta Chen, Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, number 340, page 152 more examples
Delivered by Rev. Hu Young Mi, at the Self-support Anniversary, held during the session of the eleventh annual meeting of the mission, in Fooching city.
1873, “Address on 'Self-support'”, in The Foreign Missionary, volume 31, page 280Soon afterward, there arrived a twenty-year-old migrant named Liem Sioe Liong, from the port of Fooching. People there speak Hokchia, a subgroup of the Hokchiu. When Hokchia speakers go overseas, they tend to cluster. Today, thanks in large part to Liem, the Hokchia are one of the wealthiest groups of Chinese in the world. Many are in textiles, where they have their own kongsi, the Yu Yong, with its own secret army.
1995, Sterling Seagrave, Lords of the Rim, Bantam Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 182
Origin
- Mandarin福清
- EnglishFooching
From the Postal Romanization of Mandarin 福清 (Fúqīng).
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