Hokchia
adj, name ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 of or relating to Fuqing Eastern Min Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, not-comparable
- 1 Fuqing Eastern Min (a linguistic variety of Eastern Min under Min Chinese of the Sinitic family) Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore
"Soon afterward, there arrived a twenty-year-old migrant named Liem Sioe Liong, from the port of Fooching. Folks there speak Hokchia, a subgroup of the Hokchiu. When Hokchia speakers go overseas, they tend to cluster."
- 2 a person who traces his/her ancestry to Fuqing or the surrounding area Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore
"Members of these groups can be found everywhere but most of Southeast Asia’s Fuzhou Chinese are to be found in Malaysia, particularly in Sarawak, and most of the Hokchia are to be found in Indonesia."
Synonyms
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More examples"Soon afterward, there arrived a twenty-year-old migrant named Liem Sioe Liong, from the port of Fooching. Folks there speak Hokchia, a subgroup of the Hokchiu. When Hokchia speakers go overseas, they tend to cluster."
Etymology
From Hokkien 福清 (Hok-chhiaⁿ).
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