Fukienese

American  

[foo-kye-neez, -nees] / ˈfu kyɛˈniz, -ˈnis /

Also Fujianese

noun

1. a group of Chinese dialects, including Amoy and Taiwanese, spoken in Fukien province in southeastern China as well as in Taiwan.

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Example Sentences

The dancers included representatives of the island’s aboriginal non-Chinese minority, of the Fukienese, Cantonese, and Hakka migrants from the mainland who took over the lowlands long ago, and of the KMT mainlanders who came in at the end of the second world war.

From The Guardian

Rooms are named with Fukienese surnames like “Chen” and “Huang”; employees don traditional Chinese cheongsams.

From New York Times

Naming it for the city-state’s Fukienese people, who hailed from Amoy, China, the company wove in Chinese-themed detailing throughout the hotel.

From New York Times

“There is more spontaneity, joy, and warmth in Singapore than we are given credit for,” he says, noting that his favorite places to eat include Wild Rocket and the Tiong Bahru Market, a hawker center near the city center that is packed with dozens of stalls serving fantastic dishes like Fukienese prawn noodles and chwee kway, a classic breakfast dish of steamed rice cake topped with minced preserved radishes and slathered with chili sauce.

From Newsweek

Formosans speak a Fukienese dialect, and few can talk to mainland Chinese without an interpreter.

From Time Magazine Archive