Meanings
- MalaysiaSingaporeSynonym of Yongchun.
Lee was born in 1939 in Jeram, Kuala Selangor, north-east of Kuala Lumpur and his ancestral roots are from Eng Choon district of Fujian Province in China.
2012, “Lee Sin Cheng”, in Leo Suryadinata, editor, Southeast Asian Personalities of Chinese Descent: A Biographical Dictionary, Singapore: ISEAS Publishing, →ISBN, page 5442 more examples
Different clans formed their own associations; for example the Hokkiens from the County of Eng Choon of Fujian Province formed the Eng Choon Association as far back as 1800.
2004, The Guide to Melaka, Malaysia: Essential Information for Business and Pleasure in the Heart of South-East Asia, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 50Father was from the third generation of the Gunn family whose patriarch hailed from Eng Choon county in the Chinese province of Fujian. (In Mandarin, this county is known as Yongchun.) Many of the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia had come from Eng Choon.
2020, Gunn Chit Wha, chapter 1, in Waves of Independence: Memoirs of a Malaysian Doyenne, Singapore: Epigram Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=djfsDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT15Synonyms: Yongchun
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounSynonym of Yongchun.
Origin
- Hokkien永春
- EnglishEng Choon
From Hokkien 永春 (Éng-chhun).
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Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
Eng Choon. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Eng%20Choon
“Eng Choon.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Eng%20Choon. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Eng Choon,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Eng%20Choon.
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