闽粤 (MǐnYuè): Fujian and Guangdong (provinces)

Meanings

1 Fujian and Guangdong (provinces)
2 the southern coastal region of China

Characters

闽

Examples

闽粤一带的饮食文化非常独特。

Mǐn-Yuè yīdài de yǐnshí wénhuà fēicháng dútè.

The food culture of the Fujian-Guangdong region is highly distinctive.

他的祖先从闽粤迁居到南洋。

Tā de zǔxiān cóng Mǐn-Yuè qiānjū dào Nányáng.

His ancestors emigrated from Fujian and Guangdong to Southeast Asia.

Tips

history

闽 is the one-character abbreviation for Fujian, 粤 for Guangdong. 闽粤 covers China's southern seaboard and is shorthand for the regions whose diaspora settled across Southeast Asia, Hawaii, and the Americas — most overseas Chinese trace their roots here.

culture

Don't confuse with 闽越 (also Mǐn-Yuè) — that older term refers to the ancient Minyue kingdom (Han-period state in modern Fujian).