Chiangchew
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Hokkien 漳州 (Chiang-chiu), specifically the Xiamen Hokkien and Zhangzhou Hokkien dialects.
Proper noun edit
Chiangchew
- Dated form of Zhangzhou.
- 1822 February, “A Succinct Historical Narrative of the East-India Companys Endeavours to Form Settlements and to Extend and Encourage Trade in the East, and of the Causes by which Those Endeavours Have been Frustrated”, in The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies[1], volume XIII, number 74, Section III: Japan and China, page 117:
- He then fled from Chiangchew, the city of his residence, and settled upon the isle of Amoy, where he resided, and defended it by his fleet.