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Combined sound characters (合音字): As a result of a lack of consensus among writers regarding word use, some monosyllable Taiwanese Hokkien morphemes are still written with equivalent polysyllable phrases, for example 落去 (lueh), 佗位 (tueh), 昨昏 (tsa̋ng), 啥人 (siáng). However, some common homophonous characters have become ...
Pe̍h-ōe-jī (白話字) is a Latin alphabet developed by Western missionaries working in Southeast Asia in the 19th century to write Hokkien. Pe̍h-ōe-jī allows Hokkien to be written phonetically in Latin script, meaning that phrases specific to Hokkien can be written without having to deal with the issue of non-existent Chinese characters.
The Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan (Chinese: 臺灣 台語 常用詞 辭典; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-oân Tâi-gí Siông-iōng-sû Sû-tián) is a dictionary of Taiwanese Hokkien (including Written Hokkien) commissioned by the Ministry of Education of Taiwan. [1]
[132] [133] [134] Some words may not be represented by well known characters and are instead written with English letters, such as Q, from the Hokkien word 𩚨 khiū, referring to a soft, chewy texture in foods. [135] [136] Some compound words or phrases may combine characters representing Hokkien and Guoyu words. [note 15]
In the Philippines, the game is known as "Pua Tiong Chiu" (Hokkien Chinese: 跋中秋; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Poa̍h-tiong-chhiu) among the Chinese Filipino community, [2] where the prizes are often usually money and/or appliances for adults and sometimes toys and food for children or sometimes mooncakes known in Hokkien Chinese: 中秋餅; Pe̍h-ōe ...
The Hokkien word itself when dissected means, 番; hoan; 'foreign', + 仔; á; 'diminutive noun suffix', resulting in Hokkien Chinese: 番仔; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hoan-á; lit. 'foreigner', originally from the perspective of ethnic Chinese referring to non-Chinese people, especially historically natives of Taiwan and Southeast Asia.
Example (traditional Chinese) 翻 譯: 病 院: 愛 情 歐 洲 暗 時 阿 姆: 王 梨 黃 色 有 無 歌 曲 講 話: 奇 怪: 人 員: 豬 肉 舀 水 Example (simplified Chinese) 翻 译: 病 院: 爱 情 欧 洲 暗 时 阿 姆: 王 梨 黄 色 有 无 歌 曲 讲 话: 奇 怪: 人 员: 猪 肉 舀 水
Siáu-chhoan Siōng-gī (Naoyoshi Ogawa; 小川尚義), main author and editor of the Comprehensive Taiwanese–Japanese Dictionary (1931) Below is a list of Hokkien dictionaries, also known as Minnan dictionaries or Taiwanese dictionaries, sorted by the date of the release of their first edition. The first two were prepared by foreign Christian missionaries and the third by the Empire of ...