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Transcriptions; Standard Mandarin; Hanyu Pinyin: Táiwān Mǐnnányǔ Luómǎzì Pīnyīn Fāng'àn: Bopomofo: ㄊㄞˊ ㄨㄢ ㄇㄧㄣˇ ㄋㄢˊ ㄩˇ ㄌㄨㄛˊ ㄇㄚˇ ㄗˋ ㄆㄧㄣ ㄧㄣ ㄈㄤ ㄢˋ
Many ethnic Han Chinese emigrants to the region were Hoklo from southern Fujian, and brought the language to what is now Myanmar, Vietnam, Indonesia (the former Dutch East Indies) and present day Malaysia and Singapore (formerly Malaya and the British Straits Settlements). Most of the Min Nan dialects of this region have incorporated some ...
The Hokkien language uses a broad array of honorific suffixes or prefixes for addressing or referring to people. Most are suffixes. Honorifics are often non-gender-neutral; some imply a feminine context (such as sió-chiá) while others imply a masculine one (such as sian-siⁿ), and still others imply both.
For example, you may pronounce cot and caught the same, do and dew, or marry and merry. This often happens because of dialect variation (see our articles English phonology and International Phonetic Alphabet chart for English dialects). If this is the case, you will pronounce those symbols the same for other words as well. [1]
kih 涸 kok 木 bo̍k 爲 ūi 舟， tsiu 乞 涸 木 爲 舟， kih kok bo̍k ūi tsiu 砰 pin 嘭 pong 水 tsúi 中 tiong 流， lâu 砰 嘭 水 中 流， pin pong tsúi tiong lâu 門雙 mn̂g-siang 劃槳， u̍ih-hiúnn 門雙 劃槳， mn̂g-siang u̍ih-hiúnn 噝 si 刷 suit 到 kàu 泉州。 tsuân-tsiu 噝 刷 到 泉州。 si suit kàu tsuân-tsiu An example of a folk love ballad ...
In daily practice, a bewildering variety of romanisations are used, making it difficult to know how to pronounce a word, or to judge if two words (e.g. on a map and a street sign) are actually the same. For more precise information, an equivalent from the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is given as well.
The syllable-initial ch and tr digraphs are pronounced distinctly in the North-Central, Central, and Southern varieties but are merged in Northern varieties, which pronounce them the same way). Many North-Central varieties preserve three distinct pronunciations for d , gi , and r , but the Northern varieties have a three-way merger, and the ...
Du (Chinese: 杜; pinyin: Dù; Wade–Giles: Tu 4) is a Chinese surname.The name is spelled Tu in Taiwan.In Hong Kong it is spelled as To and in Macao as Tou, based on the pronunciation of 杜 in Cantonese.