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- Jyutping: Toi4saan1), alternately romanized in Cantonese as Toishan or Toisan, in local dialect as Hoisan, and formerly known as Xinning or ****ng (新寧)...
- Language Institute and the 2000 United States Census. The terms Toishan, Toisan, and Toisaan are all based on Cantonese pronunciation and are also frequently...
- Counties') refers to the four former counties of Xin**** (Sunwui), Taishan (Toisan), Kaiping (Hoiping) and Enping (Yanping) on the west side of the Pearl River...
- (Toisan) – the home of many early Chinese immigrants to the United States. Hong Kong doctor Li Shu-fan likewise reported that he knew it in Toisan in...
- who are descendants of immigrants from the county-level city of Taishan (Toisan in Cantonese), who speak a distinctive dialect related to Cantonese called...
- most Chinese emigrants to Western nations; one coastal county, Taishan (or Tóisàn, where the Sìyì or sei yap variety of Yue is spoken), alone may be the origin...
- American West during gold rush era, e.g. chop suey. Heavily influenced by the Toisan dialect. via the multi-national colonization of Shanghai. Influenced by...
- Plains China, Henan province Derivation State of Kuang Other names Variant form(s) Kwong, Kuong, Kwang, Quong, Kong, Khong Toisan: Fong, Fhon See also Lei...
- was pla**** by Chinese immigrants to the US, who predominantly hailed from Toisan (Taishan) city in Guangdong province of China. In the late 1930s, the sport...
- gold was found in the Sierra Nevada in 1848, thousands of Cantonese from Toisan City in Guangdong Province (Historically known as Canton) began to migrate...