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HOKKIANESE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hokkianese mean? 

HOKKIANESE (noun)
  The noun HOKKIANESE has 1 sense:

1. any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien provinceplay

  Familiarity information: HOKKIANESE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HOKKIANESE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Amoy; Fukien; Fukkianese; Hokkianese; Min; Min dialect; Taiwanese

Hypernyms ("Hokkianese" is a kind of...):

Chinese (any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system)


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