Most of the characters of Fuzhou dialect stem from Ancient Chinese and can therefore be written in Chinese characters.
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Quite a few words from Ancient Chinese (mainly Ancient Wu and Ancient Chu) have retained the original meanings for thousands of years, while their counterparts in Mandarin Chinese have either fallen out of daily use or varied to different meanings.
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