河洛

Proper noun

 * 1) Yellow River and Luo River
 * 2) the area between the Yellow River and Luo River

Etymology 2
The endonym of some Hokkien speakers in Taiwan, not used in Hokkien-speaking areas of Fujian. It is etymologically unrelated to Etymology 1. The earliest origins of the term are:


 * As an exonym for Han people in Fujian used by She people, attested in the form in  . The first syllable was written as  and associated with Henan by intellectuals at the time, but it is likely etymologically unrelated to  as  lacks a stop coda in Hakka and Southern Min.


 * As a derogatory exonym for Southern Min speaking people used by Hakka people in eastern Guangdong, first attested in the form in the place name  in then Yong'an county, Huizhou prefecture (present day Zijin, Heyuan) in the Annals of Yong'an County . The alternative form of the place name,, is recorded in  . This exonym was likely derogatory given the use of the character  to write the first syllable, even though the first syllable may not be related to  etymologically. Note  remains an exonym for Southern Min speaking people in Hakka to this day, and  is commonly attested in place names in Hakka-speaking areas of eastern Guangdong.

The earliest attestation of is found in Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum  as the name for Hokkien speaking people. In Taiwan, appeared no later than 1769, while  appeared no later than 1796. The association with is a late folk etymology, with the first attestation of  found in Taiwan scholar Wu Huai's 1957 paper titled 〈河洛語中之唐宋故事〉, and has since become popular.

The form is possibly the result of reanalysis of this word based on associating the first syllable with  (as in.