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Teochew /tiˈ/ or Chiuchow /ˈ/ (潮州; peng'im: Dio⁵ziu¹ [ti̯o˥˥꜖꜖.tsi̯u˧˧]) is a historical area that is mostly within the modern Chaoshan region, eastern Guangdong, China.

Teochew may also refer to:

  • Teochew language, a variety of Southern Min Chinese, commonly used in eastern Guangdong and Southeast Asia
  • Teochew people, a group of people originating from eastern Guangdong, known as the Teochew prefecture during the Qing dynasty
  • Teochew cuisine, a branch of Chinese cuisine created by the Teochew people
  • Teochew opera, a branch of traditional Chinese opera originating from Chaoshan

The most common modern romanization for the characters is Chaozhou using Hanyu Pinyin. Teochew is a local romanisation of 潮州.

Chaozhou (Mandarin romanization) or Teochew may also mean:

  • Chaoshan region (also known as Teoswa or Chiushan) includes three municipalities Chaozhou, Jieyang, Shantou and the nearby areas.
  • Chaozhou city, a prefecture-level city in Guangdong, China
  • Chaozhou, Pingtung (潮州鎮), an urban township in western Pingtung County, Taiwan
  • 5217 Chaozhou, a main belt asteroid

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Teochew Min

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Teochew, also known as Teo-Swa (or Chaoshan), is a Southern Min language spoken by the Teochew people in the Chaoshan region of eastern Guangdong and by...

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Teochew people

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The Teochew people or Chaoshanese, Teo-Swa people or Chaoshan people (rendered Têo-Swa in romanized Teoswa and Cháoshàn in Modern Standard Mandarin also...

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Teochew

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Look up Teochew, Chiuchow, or Chaozhou in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Teochew /tiˈoʊtʃuː/ or Chiuchow /ˈtʃuːtʃaʊ/ (潮州; peng'im: Dio⁵ziu¹ [ti̯o˥˥꜖꜖...

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Chaozhou

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Chaozhou (Chinese: 潮州), alternatively Chiuchow, Chaochow or Teochew, is a city in the eastern Guangdong province of China. It borders Shantou to the south...

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Teochew cuisine

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Teochew cuisine, also known as Chiuchow cuisine, Chaozhou cuisine or Teo-swa cuisine, originated from the Chaoshan region in the eastern part of China's...

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Guangdong Romanization

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Provincial Education Department in 1960 for transliterating Cantonese, Teochew, Hakka and Hainanese. The schemes utilized similar elements with some differences...

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Southern Min

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some having limited mutual intelligibility with it, others almost none. Teochew, Longyan, and Zhenan are said to have general mutual intelligibility with...

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Singlish vocabulary

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Cantonese, Malay, and Tamil, and sometimes other Chinese languages like Teochew, Hainanese, Hakka, Hockchew, and Mandarin. For example, pek chek means...

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Teochew opera

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Teochew opera or Chaozhou opera, Chiuchow opera (especially in Hong Kong), is one of the many variants of Chinese opera, originating in southern China's...

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Teochew porridge

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Teochew porridge (Chinese: 潮州糜; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tiô-chiu-môe / Tiô-chiu-bê; Teochew pronunciation in Tâi-lô: Tiô-tsiu-muê) is a Teochew rice porridge dish...

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Chinese numerology

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in Teochew sounds like or rhymes with the word "happiness" or "joy" (喜 Teochew: hi2). Finally, another plausible explanation is that in the Teochew dialect...

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Teochew woodcarving

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Teochew woodcarving, or Chaozhou woodcarving (Chinese: 潮州木雕; pinyin: Cháozhōumùdiāo), is a form of Chinese wood carving originating from the Tang dynasty...

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Teochew Letters

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Teochew Letters (Chinese: 潮汕僑批; pinyin: Chaoshan Qiaopi) were a form of family correspondence combined with remittance, sent by Teochew immigrants in...

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Hoklo people

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mainstream Southern Min, which is partially mutually intelligible to the Teochew language, Hainanese, Leizhou Min, and Haklau Min. In Southern Fujian, the...

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Teochew Romanization

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rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Teochew Romanization, also known as Swatow Church Romanization, or locally as Pe̍h-ūe-jī...

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Teochew Poit Ip Huay Kuan

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Teochew Poit Ip Huay Kuan (Chinese: 潮州八邑會館) is a Teochew clan association in Singapore. Poit Ip, which means eight districts in the Teochew dialect, stood...

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Popiah

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Popiah (Pe̍h-ōe-jī: po̍h-piáⁿ) is a Fujianese/Teochew-style fresh spring roll filled with an assortment of fresh, dried, and cooked ingredients, eaten...

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The Teochew Family

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The Teochew Family (Chinese: 潮州家族) is a 1995 Singaporean television series produced by Television Corporation of Singapore and Fujian TV. The series follows...

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Fun guo

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(潮州粉粿), sometimes spelled fun quor, fun gor, fen guo, Chiu Chow dumpling, Teochew dumpling, or fun kor, is a variety of steamed dumpling from the Chaoshan...

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Chaoshan

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Canada, New Zealand, Indonesia, and other countries and coastal areas. The Teochew Letters, which have been admitted into the Asia/Pacific Regional Memory...

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Bak kut teh

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bah kut teh and abbreviated BKT; Chinese: 肉骨茶; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Bah-kut-tê, Teochew Pe̍h-uē-jī: nêg8-gug4-dê5) is a pork rib dish cooked in broth popularly...

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Guangdong

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related to mainstream Southern Min (Hokkien) and their cuisine is Teochew cuisine. Teochew opera is also well-known and has a unique form. The Hakka people...

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Cantonese

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after Teochew, Hakka and Hainanese. Nevertheless, within the Thai Chinese commercial sector, it serves as a common language alongside Teochew or Thai...

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Thai Chinese

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their ancestry to Chaoshan. This is evidenced by the prevalence of the Teochew dialect among the Chinese community in Thailand as well as other Chinese...

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Sensei

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some southern Chinese Chinese varieties such as Cantonese, Hokkien, Wu, Teochew and Hakka, where it still has the meaning "teacher" or "doctor". In Japanese...

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List of Teochew people

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This is a list of notable Teochews. Mainland China Huang Guangyu (黄光裕; Ng Guangyu; Wong Kwong Yu) (1969–; Chaoyang, Guangdong), founder and chairman of...

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Chinese Cambodians

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specific region of ancestral origin in China; Cantonese, Hokkien, Hainanese, Teochew and Hakka. Chinese immigrants were required to register with their association...

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Patriotic soup

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hùguó cài; lit. 'protect the country dish', Teochew :hu gog chai) is a vegetable soup originated by Teochew people. It was developed during the final year...

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