闽侯閩侯 in English

Character breakdown

• 闽閩 mǐn short name for Fujian province 福建[Fu2 ji…
• 侯 hóu marquis, second of the five orders of an…

How it used to be written

闽

These are the forms of 閩, the traditional character: 闽 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Small seal script
• Clerical script 西漢
• See all 3 forms

侯

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 16 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).