Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Fujian.
In the inspection of Fu Jian Province, I was very interested in the 'Hearing Hall' of Jiao Mai City, located in the southeast of Fu Jian Province.
2017, Qi Hong Dong, “Structure and Strategy for In Situ Rural Urbanization”, in Urban Transformation in China (The Chinese Economy Series), Routledge, →ISBN, →OCLC3 more examples
Ng Moy and the Crane The history of Wing Chun Kuen can be traced back to the Southern Shaolin Temple, in Fu Jian Province , and dates back 400 years to the Qing Dynasty.
1998, Ip Chun, Michael Tse, Wing Chun Traditional Chinese Kung Fu for Self-defense & Health, New York: St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OLTaiwanese is a dialect from the Fu Jian province in China. The majority of Taiwanese people are descendants of Fujianese settlers who immigrated from China to Taiwan in the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries.
2000, Wen Shu Lee, “In Search of My Mother's Tongue: From Proverbs to Contextualized Sensibility”, in Myron W. Lustig, Jolene Koester, editors, AmongUS: Essays on Identity, Belonging, and Intercultural Competence, Longman, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 55A HAPPY REUNION The Chinese crested tern, a sizeable seabird, had not been seen since 1937. In June 2000, eight adults with some young birds were sighted on the Taiwanese island of Mazu, off the Chinese coast of Fu Jian province. Measures to protect them were taken immediately because fishermen collect the eggs of seabirds nesting on the island. Since then, more of these rare birds have been sighted in other locations.
2004, Sandy Shepherd, editor, The Amazing Secrets of Nature, Reader's Digest, published 2005, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 120
Origin
Borrowed from Mandarin 福建 (Fú Jiàn).
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