Examples of 'hokkien' in a sentence
Meaning of "hokkien"
Hokkien is an adjective related to the Hokkien people or their language and culture
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- A linguistic subgroup of the Min Nan branch of the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family which is mainly spoken in the south-eastern part of mainland China (Fujian province), Taiwan, and by overseas Chinese of Hoklo descent.
- A group of Han Chinese people whose traditional ancestral homes are in southern Fujian, South China, especially those that ancestrally spoke the Hokkien language.
- Any person from Fujian.
- Of or relating to the Fujianese people.
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Hokkien is one of the largest language groups worldwide.
The majority of Hokkien vocabulary is monosyllabic.
Hokkien dialects differ in their preferred choice of pronouns.
It has been adopted through the Hokkien name of bakpao.
Hokkien and Malay are also used by traders.
Deeper studies are being conducted on the traditional calligraphy of Hokkien.
Taiwanese Hokkien thus was reduced to a common daily language.
Lim was born to a Hokkien family.
Hokkien mee throughout Malaysia varies considerably due to regional differences.
They are half deaf and they only speak Hokkien.
The Hokkien community goes on strike to get the government to release him.
Honorifics for family members have two different forms in Hokkien.
Hokkien varieties retain many pronunciations that are no longer found in other Chinese varieties.
It can also refer to a fried noodle dish known as Hokkien mee.
The market lacks Hokkien singers now.
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There was a perception from the public that the name had Hokkien origins.
Speaking Hokkien you know nothing.
It can also be mixed with some traditional Hokkien dishes as well.
Hokkien is spoken by ethnic Chinese throughout the Philippines.
Recently there has been a growing use of Taiwanese Hokkien in the broadcast media.
The language used is a stylised combination of both literary and colloquial registers of Taiwanese Hokkien.
Most of the Hokkien were traders.
Her parents raised her speaking Hokkien.
Many Hokkien words have cognates in other Chinese varieties.
The mainlanders often learned Hokkien.
Costume of Cambodian Hokkien defines the inheritance of the two culture.
This is the language also known as Hokkien or Taiwanese.
Writing Hokkien using Chinese characters is a common method of writing in Taiwanese literature.
He also has released a number of works performed in Taiwanese Hokkien.
There is a Hokkien phrase.
It is mutually intelligible with Hokkien.
It is a specific Hokkien honorific.
The system is chiefly based on the Amoy dialect of Hokkien.
Speaking Hokkien Shenzhen got it long ago.
There is both a colloquial version and a literary version of Taiwanese Hokkien.
See also Comparison of Hokkien writing systems.
Lee has released over thirty albums in Mandarin and Hokkien.
It is very common in Hokkien and Taiwan.
He received a Japanese education and could only speak a little Hokkien.
Both Hokkien and Teochew have different accents too.
The latter two terms are derived from the Hokkien Chinese.
Hokkien numerals Chinese classifier.
All of these caused Taiwanese to deviate from Hokkien used elsewhere.
The varieties of Hokkien in Southeast Asia originate from these dialects.
It belongs to the Quanzhou Hokkien branch.
The Hokkien dialect.
All inhabitants speak the Taiwanese Hokkien language.
Speaking Hokkien it spreads.
I grew up speaking Mandarin and Hokkien.
They speak the Taiwanese Hokkien language instead of Teochew.
