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The Teochew people or Chaoshanese, Teo-Swa people or Chaoshan people (rendered Têo-Swa in romanized Teoswa [clarification needed] and Cháoshàn in Modern Standard Mandarin also known as Teo-Swa in mainland China due to a change in place names [1]) is an ethnic group native to the historical Chaoshan region in south China [2] who speak the Teochew language.
Chaozhou (Chinese: 潮州), alternatively Chiuchow, [3] Chaochow [4] or Teochew, [5] is a city in the eastern Guangdong province of China.It borders Shantou to the south, Jieyang to the southwest, Meizhou to the northwest, the province of Fujian to the east, and the South China Sea to the southeast.
Chaoshan or Teoswa (Chinese: 潮汕; pinyin: Cháoshàn; Cantonese Yale: Chìusaan; peng'im: Dio 5 suan 1 [ti̯o˥˥˩˩.sũ̯ã˧˧]) is a cultural-linguistic region in the east of Guangdong, China. It is the origin of the Teochew Min (潮汕话). The region, also known as Chiushan in Cantonese, consists of the cities Chaozhou, Jieyang and ...
Teochew [a] or Chiuchow [b] (潮州; peng'im: Dio 5 ziu 1 [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 [ii], also known as Teo-Swa (or Chaoshan) [iii], is a Southern Min language spoken by the Teochew people in the Chaoshan region of eastern Guangdong and by their diaspora around the world.
The pork liver is one of the organs that must be included, whose "肝" pronounced the same as "官" (meaning "officer") in Teochew language. [7] This is because the only way for ordinate people to get rid of poverty and oppression is to take the imperial competitive examination, a bureaucratic electoral system in ancient China, to become the ...
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Leow Chia Heng (廖正興/廖正兴; Liao Zhengxing) (1874–1931; Chao'an, Guangdong [1]), Teochew pioneer and philanthropist; co-founder of the Sze Hai Tong Banking & Insurance Company Limited [2] and the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce, having served as the latter's 6th and 9th President in 1911 and 1914 respectively; [3] was a ...