- Xiamen.
- a Fukienese dialect spoken in and around Xiamen, as well as on Taiwan and Hainan.
- a port in SE China, in Fujian province on Amoy Island, at the mouth of the Jiulong River opposite Taiwan: one of the first treaty ports opened to European trade (1842). Pop: 746 000 (2005 est)
- the dialect of Chinese spoken in Amoy, Taiwan, and elsewhere: a Min dialect
