min dialect

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   any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province

   SynonymsMinFukienFukkianeseHokkianeseAmoyTaiwanese

   BroaderChinese

Questions about min dialect

What does min dialect mean?

min dialect means "any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province".

What is another word for min dialect?

Close synonyms include Min, Fukien, Fukkianese, Hokkianese, Amoy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is min dialect a common word?

min dialect is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.