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闽南

閩南
Mǐnnán
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Minnan
  2. 2 southern Fujian region
  3. 3 the Hokkien-speaking area of southeastern China

Examples

HSK 1
他会说闽南话。
Tā huì shuō Mǐnnánhuà.
He can speak Hokkien (the Minnan dialect).
HSK 4
闽南人喜欢喝功夫茶。
Mǐnnán rén xǐhuan hē gōngfūchá.
Minnan people enjoy drinking gongfu tea.

Tips

culture
闽 is the abbreviation for Fujian Province (福建). 闽南 (southern Fujian) covers Xiamen, Quanzhou, and Zhangzhou - the homeland of the Hokkien language and the ancestral home of most Taiwanese and Singaporean Chinese.

In Pop Culture

闽南语 Mǐnnán yǔ
Hokkien / Minnan language
A major Sinitic language spoken across southern Fujian, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia - distinct enough from Mandarin to be mutually unintelligible.

Stroke Order

闽 mǐn
南 nán