Fujianese

• Fukienese

Fujian +‎ -ese

Fujianese (comparative more Fujianese, superlative most Fujianese)

1. Of or relating to the province of Fujian in China.
   • [1981 March 22, “Chinese opera delights audience at international arts festival”, in Free China Weekly [自由中國週報]‎, volume XXII, number 11, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 1:

     Because Fukienese has many spoken dialects, the province has a diversity of operatic styles. Fukienese Opera usually refers to the style prevalent in Fuchou and in the northern and eastern parts of the province.]

   • 2000, Wen Shu Lee, “In Search of My Mother's Tongue: From Proverbs to Contextualized Sensibility”, in Myron W. Lustig, Jolene Koester, editor, AmongUS: Essays on Identity, Belonging, and Intercultural Competence‎, Longman, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 55:

     Taiwanese is a dialect from the Fu Jian province in China. The majority of Taiwanese people are descendants of Fujianese settlers who immigrated from China to Taiwan in the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries.

Fujianese (plural Fujianese)

1. A person from Fujian.