fuhkien
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In 1624, the Dutch established themselves on Fischer's I., one of the Pescadore group, in order to control the coast trade of Fuhkien province."
- "The main trade route of South-eastern Chehkiang connects Foochow, the capital of Fuhkien, with Ningpo, which has direct communications by water (a few portages expected) with the Grand Canal and Peking."
Etymology
From the Postal Romanization of Nanking court dialect Mandarin 福建 (Fújiàn), from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].
Word Breakdown
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