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Yahoo! Kimo (Chinese: Yahoo!奇摩) is the Taiwanese version of Yahoo!, a web services provider based in the United States. In February 2001, Yahoo! Inc. acquired Kimo , a Taiwanese search engine, and in October 2001, Yahoo! Kimo was launched as the merger of Kimo with Yahoo! Taiwan . [1]
In 1984, Taiwan's Ministry of Education began revising the Gwoyeu Romatzyh method out of concern that Hanyu Pinyin was gaining prominence internationally. Ultimately, a revised version of Gwoyeu Romatzyh was released in 1986, [50] which was called Mandarin Phonetic Symbols II. However, this system was not widely adopted. [56]
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]
Officially issued online versions of the dictionary include the Concised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary [3] and the Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary (《重編國語辭典修定本》). [1] [4] [5] [6] The Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary includes 156,710 entries, [7] and was published in 1994. [8]
There were also questions from educational panels that this project may violate the "language neutrality act" (語言平等法) since Taiwan has many languages including aboriginal languages. [7] Taiwan released a version at chinese-linguipedia.org, [8] and mainland China released their own version at zhonghuayuwen.org. [9] [10] [11]
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 ...
Bopomofo is also used to transcribe other Chinese dialects, most commonly Taiwanese Hokkien and Cantonese, however its use can be applied to practically any dialect in handwriting (because not all letters are encoded). Outside of Chinese, Bopomofo letters are also used in Hmu and Ge languages by a small number of Hmu Christians. [8]
The official romanization system for Taiwanese Hokkien (usually called "Taiwanese") in Taiwan is known as Tâi-uân Tâi-gí Lô-má-jī Phing-im Hong-àn, [I] [1] often shortened to Tâi-lô. It is derived from Pe̍h-ōe-jī and since 2006 has been one of the phonetic notation systems officially promoted by Taiwan's Ministry of Education. [2]