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Amoy

noun
1.
Any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province.  Synonyms: Fukien, Fukkianese, Hokkianese, Min, Min dialect, Taiwanese.





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... his services was made deputy inspector-general of hospitals. He retired from this service in 1837, and seven years later was appointed consul at Fuchow in China, where, after a short official stay at Amoy, he performed the functions, as he himself expressed it, "of everything from a lord chancellor to a sheriff's officer.'' Fuchow was one of the ports opened to trade by the treaty of 1842, and Mr Alcock, as he then was, had ...
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