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AMOY

Dictionary entry overview: What does Amoy mean?

• AMOY (noun)
The noun AMOY has 1 sense:

1. any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province

Familiarity information: AMOY used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• AMOY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Amoy; Fukien; Fukkianese; Hokkianese; Min dialect; Min; Taiwanese

Hypernyms ("Amoy" is a kind of...):

Chinese (any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system)

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