FromFujian +-ese.
Fujianese (comparativemoreFujianese,superlativemostFujianese)
- Of or relating to the province ofFujian inChina.
[1981 March 22, “Chinese opera delights audience at international arts festival”, inFree China Weekly [自由中國週報][1], volume XXII, number11,Taipei,→ISSN,→OCLC,page 2, column 1:BecauseFukienese has many spoken dialects, the province has a diversity of operatic styles.Fukienese Opera usually refers to the style prevalent in Fuchou and in the northern and eastern parts of the province.]
2000, Wen Shu Lee, “In Search of My Mother's Tongue: From Proverbs to Contextualized Sensibility”, in Myron W. Lustig,Jolene Koester, editors,AmongUS: Essays on Identity, Belonging, and Intercultural Competence[2],Longman,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,→OL,page55:Taiwanese is a dialect from the Fu Jian province in China. The majority of Taiwanese people are descendants ofFujianese settlers who immigrated from China to Taiwan in the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries.
2004 April 30, Bob Mackin, “Travel Story - In a nutshell”, inPique Newsmagazine[3], archived fromthe original on20 September 2023, Travel[4]:The crisp, mildly sweet water chestnut – "bee-chee" in Mandarin – is the biggest export from the Kuantien district in central Tainan County. The 130-year-old, white and red brick, southernFujianese-style house is Kuantien’s biggest tourist magnet because it was the boyhood home of Chen Shui-bian.
Fujianese (pluralFujianese)
- (chiefly in theplural) A person fromFujian.
2008, Michel Hockx, Kirk A. Denton,Literary Societies of Republican China, Lexington Books,→ISBN, page33:Tcheng, aFujianese, was the first to enthusiastically introduce the poetic competition to a Western audience; he associated it with Western sports to help explain it as a form of entertainment and sociability.
As with other terms for people formed with-ese, the countable singular noun in reference to a person (as in "I am a Fujianese", "writing about Fujianese cuisine as a Fujianese") is uncommon and often taken as incorrect. In its place, the adjective is used, by itself (as in "I am Fujianese") or before a noun likeperson,man, orwoman ("writing about Fujianese cuisine as a Fujianese person"). See also-ish, which is similarly only used primarily as an adjective or as a plural noun.
