Teochew
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /tiˈoʊt͡ʃuː/
Forms: form: Teo Chew
form: Diojiu
form: Teochiu
form: Tiuchiu
form: Tie-chiu
form: Teochow
form: Chiuchow
form: Chiu Chow
form: Chiu Chau
form: Taechew
form: Taechiew
form: Taechiu
form: Tio Ciu
form: Tiociu
form: Trieu Chau
Etymology: From Teochew 潮州 (dio⁵ ziu¹). See also Hokkien 潮州 (Tiô-chiu). Doublet of Chaozhou.
Senses: examples: text: […] Lim Peng Siang, Low Kim Pong, Teo Sian Keng and Lee Choon Guan were leaders of Fukien dialect group; Lam Kim Seng, Chua Tse Yong were Teochew leaders; Loke Yew and Lam Wai Fong were Cantonese leaders.
ref: 1995, Yen Ching-hwang, Community and Politics: The Chinese in Colonial Singapore and Malaysia, Marshall Cavendish International, →ISBN:
text: 'I do not speak English,' the young man said sanguinely in Malay, then said it again in Teochew, to test the white man.
ref: 2015, William L. Gibson, Singapore Yellow, Singapore: Monsoon Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 116:
glosses: A variety of Southern Min Chinese, spoken in the Chaoshan region of eastern Guangdong and its diaspora.
examples: text: Fong Kai is a well known porcelain-producing center in eastern Kwangtung. It is only 8 li away from Teochow (Chaochow), and easily accessible.
ref: 1955, Review of Hong Kong Chinese Press:
text: As mentioned previously (in Chapter II), the Huang Kang Uprising in Teochew (also known as the first Teochew Uprising) had been fermenting long before the formation of the T'ung Meng Hui.
ref: 1976, Yen Ching Hwang, The Overseas Chinese and the 1911 Revolution: With special reference to Singapore and Malaya, Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, page 310:
text: "I miss my family in Teochew. […] Returning to Teochew now is also not an option […]"
ref: 2014, Song Cheng Miang, Teochew Red, Hokkien Green, Partridge Publishing Singapore:
text: It has been said that this dish was created by the court house chefs when the secretaries of the various civil departments in Teochew City did not want their officials to look uncivilised eating chicken with bones at formal events.
ref: 2015, Eric Low, Teochew Heritage Cooking: A treasury of recipes for Chinese comfort food, Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd, →ISBN, page 72:
glosses: A city in the eastern part of China's Guangdong province, now more commonly called Chaozhou.
examples: text: In Fukien and the Teochew region of eastern Kwangtung there are places where every man in every village within a radius of twenty miles or more bears the same surname, the clan being virtually a small nation with its own territory.
ref: 1972, Austin Coates, China, India and the Ruins of Washington, page 94:
text: When they later moved down south to the Teochew region, their language developed into the Teochew dialect, whose tone is very similar to Minnan Huà.
ref: 2007, Lee Khoon Choy, Passage Through China: This Land So Rich in Beauty, page 22:
text: Mr and Mrs Chen were from the same town in the Chaoshan (Teochew) Region and spoke the same variety of Teochew dialect.
ref: 2014, Sihua Liang, Language Attitudes and Identities in Multilingual China, page 92:
text: Changlim in the Chaozhou (Teochew) region emerged as Amoy's rival for domination of the coastal trade.
ref: 2019, Kwa Chong Guan, “Prelude to the History of the Chinese in Singapore”, in Kwa Chong Guan, Kua Bak Lim, editors, A General History Of The Chinese In Singapore, page 16:
text: While some Teochews came to Singapore from Dapo (also Dabu, or Hakka district), language differences led to Dapo being separated from the Teochew region, leaving only eight districts, although after the 19th century, the Chinese government further divided the 8 districts into 11.
ref: 2020, Shawn Seah, My Father's Kampung: A History Of Aukang And Punggol, page xvii:
glosses: The Chaoshan region where Teochew is spoken.
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Chaozhou
Derived terms: Teochew porridge