闽閩 in English
- short name for Fujian province 福建[Fu2 jian4] / also pr. [Min2]
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 閩, the traditional character: 闽 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 西漢 - See all 3 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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福建省的主要方言有闽语、客家话、吴语、赣语、南平官话。
The major dialects spoken in Fujian Province include Min, Hakka, Wu, Gan, and Nanping Mandarin.
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闽语包括闽东话、闽南话、闽北话、闽中话和莆仙话。然而,这五种方言之间的互通性非常有限。
Min consists of Eastern Min, Southern Min, Northern Min, Central Min and Pu-Xian Min. However, these five dialects have very limited mutual intelligibility.