Hokchia

Hokchia

English

Alternative forms

• Hockchia, Hock Chia, Hok-chia

Etymology

From Hokkien 福清 (Hok-chhiaⁿ).

Proper noun

Hokchia

1. (Southeast Asia, chiefly Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore) Fuqing dialect (a dialect from the Eastern Min family of Chinese dialects)
   • 1995, Sterling Seagrave, Lords of the Rim: The Invisible Empire of the Overseas Chinese‎, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, LCCN 94-44555, OCLC 777312564, page 191:

     Soon afterward, there arrived a twenty-year-old migrant named Liem Sioe Liong, from the port of Fooching. Folks there speak Hokchia, a subgroup of the Hokchiu. When Hokchia speakers go overseas, they tend to cluster.

   • 2001, Michael Backman, Asian Eclipse: Exposing the Dark Side of Business in Asia‎, Rev. edition, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, LCCN 00-052866, OCLC 813512419, page 197:

     Fuzhou is the dialect of those from around Fuzhou city in the northern tip of Fujian, Hokchia is the closely related dialect of those from the area around nearby Fuqing, and Henghua is the dialect of those from the Putian area, also in northern Fujian

2. (Southeast Asia, chiefly Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore) a person who traces his/her ancestry to Fuqing or the surrounding area
   • 2003, Michael Backman, Charlotte Butler, Big in Asia: 25 Strategies for Business Success‎, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, OCLC 502522810, page 27:

     Members of these groups can be found everywhere but most of Southeast Asia’s Fuzhou Chinese are to be found in Malaysia, particularly in Sarawak, and most of the Hokchia are to be found in Indonesia.

   • 2004, Frank N Pieke; et al, Transnational Chinese: Fujianese Migrants in Europe‎, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 2003019110, OCLC 803861321, page 161:

     In 1990, for the first time since leaving in 1981, He went back and, together with his younger brother, who had remained in Fuqing, invested in an electric wire company. He stresses that he was one of the first to invest in Fuqing after the investments made by Liem Sioe Liong, the Indonesian Hokchia tycoon.

   • 2017, Stephen Ling, Growing Up Chinese‎, Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, →ISBN, LCCN 2017919002, OCLC 1124441479, page 15:

     Grandfather and another man built the first Hokchia School on grandfather's section of the Hokchia settlement.

Adjective

Hokchia (not comparable)

1. (Southeast Asia, chiefly Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore) of or relating to the Fuqing dialect