Definitions

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  • proper noun a city, now officially known as Xiamen, in southern China
  • proper noun the Jiulong Jiang river
  • proper noun The Amoy language/dialect

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  • noun any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province

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Examples

  • Concern about a possible outbreak in Amoy Garden mounted on Saturday, when 22 of Hong Kong's 45 new SAR cases hospitalized that day were determined to be residents of the estate.

    Medpundit 2003

  • Concern about a possible outbreak in Amoy Garden mounted on Saturday, when 22 of Hong Kong's 45 new SAR cases hospitalized that day were determined to be residents of the estate.

    Archive 2003-04-01 2003

  • Pin-tsun Chang, "Maritime Trade and Local Economy in Late Ming Fukien," 63 – 82; Ren-Chuan Lin, "Fukien's Private Sea Trade in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries," 163 – 216; and Chin-Keong Ng, "The South Fukienese Junk Trade at Amoy from the Seventeenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries," 297 – 316.

    How Taiwan Became Chinese 2006

  • "The South Fukienese Junk Trade at Amoy from the Seventeenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries."

    How Taiwan Became Chinese 2006

  • The first, and still by far the best church-building at Amoy, which is also the first church building erected in China expressly for Chinese Protestant Christian worship, may be called his monument.

    Forty Years in South China The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D. Rev. John Gerardus Fagg

  • At Amoy, which is probably the best known of these districts, when natives from the surrounding country bring word into the settlement that a tiger has been seen, preparations for the hunt are quickly completed, and a party of sportsmen repairs to the scene of action.

    Life and sport in China Second Edition Oliver George Ready

  • The first, and still by far the best church-building at Amoy, which is also the first church building erected in China expressly for Chinese Protestant Christian worship, may be called his monument.

    Forty Years in South China Fagg, John Gerardus, 1860-1917 1894

  • The case centers on Mr. Lai's activities in the freewheeling coastal "special economic zone" of Xiamen formerly known as Amoy, which was under Xi Jinping's purview when he was governor of Fujian Province.

    NYT > Global Home By IAN JOHNSON 2011

  • The case centers on Mr. Lai's activities in the freewheeling coastal "special economic zone" of Xiamen formerly known as Amoy, which was under Xi Jinping's purview when he was governor of Fujian Province.

    NYT > Home Page By IAN JOHNSON 2011

  • The case centers on Mr. Lai's activities in the freewheeling coastal "special economic zone" of Xiamen formerly known as Amoy, which was under Xi Jinping's purview when he was governor of Fujian Province.

    NYT > Home Page By IAN JOHNSON 2011

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