# Fu-chien
## English
### Etymology

From Mandarin 福建 (Fújiàn) Wade–Giles romanization: Fu²-chien⁴.

### Proper noun

Fu-chien
* Alternative form of Fujian
** 1966, Luce Boulnois, translated by Dennis Chamberlin, The Silk Road‎, London: George Allen & Unwin, →OCLC, →OL, page 208:We know that Italians were trading in the Black Sea ports, and the Arabs in the ports of southern China- in Fu-chien and Kuang-tung. Zayton (Ch'üan-chou in Fu-chien?) is mentioned by Marco Polo as 'the greatest port in the world'.
** 1974, D. J. Dwyer, editor, China Now: an Introductory Survey with Readings‎, Longman, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 224:When this line was about to be completed, toward the end of 1956, official newspapers reported that henceforth ‘rich iron ore, timber and figs’ produced in Fu-chien could be shipped out for the benefit of other parts of the country [29].
** 1998, “Taiwan”, in The World Factbook‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 522:Administrative divisions: since in the past the authorities claimed to be the government of all China, the central administrative divisions include the provinces of Fu-chien (some 20 offshore islands of Fujian Province including Quemoy and Matsu) and Taiwan (the island of Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands);
** 1999, Linda A. Walton, Academies and Society in Southern Sung China‎, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 37:While Chu Hsi’s fame in the Southern Sung academy movement rests on his revival of White Deer Grotto in Chiang-hsi, he was most active in founding academies in his adoptive home, Fu-chien. His ancestral home was Wu-yuan County (Hui, Chiang-tung), but he was born, educated, and spent much of his career both in and out of office in Fu-chien.
** 2010, Jay Lake, Pinion‎, Tor Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 290:"You do not care if I am a peasant girl born beneath a harnessed ox in the fields of Fu-chien?" "I do not care if you were born in the Forbidden City, of the body of an angel on a couch of ivory." He put down the glasses. "You are aboard my ship without my permission, behaving dreadfully. If you are a divinity, then I will bid you welcome and make the best of my hospitality. If you are an insolent peasant girl from Fu-chien, then I will throw you into the sea and tell you to swim for that distant shore."
** [2016 April 15, “History”, in 福建金門地方檢察署 [Fuchien Kinmen District Prosecutors Office]‎, archived from the original on 29 June 2022:Kinmen County used to belong to Tungan County of Fuchien Province.]
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Fu-chien.

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ Fujian, Wade-Giles romanization Fu-chien, in Encyclopædia Britannica
* ↑ Brian Hook, editor (1982), “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China‎, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 476, 478: “The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, […] Fu-chien (Fujian) 福建”

### Further reading

* Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Fukien or Fu-chien”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 649, column 2
* “Fu-chien”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* “Fu-chien” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025.