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The Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan ( Chinese: 臺灣 閩南語 常用詞 辭典; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-oân Bân-lâm-gí Siông-iōng-sû Sû-tián) is a dictionary of Taiwanese Hokkien (including Written Hokkien) commissioned by the Ministry of Education of Taiwan. [ 1] The dictionary uses the Taiwanese Romanization System (based ...
Teochew[ ii], also known as Teo-Swa (or Chaoshan) [ iii], is a Southern Min language spoken by the Teochew people in the Chaoshan region of eastern Guangdong and by their diaspora around the world. It is sometimes referred to as Chiuchow, its Cantonese rendering, due to English romanization by colonial officials and explorers.
Southern Min (simplified Chinese: 闽南语; traditional Chinese: 閩南語; pinyin: Mǐnnányǔ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Bân-lâm-gí/gú; lit. 'Southern Min language'), Minnan (Mandarin pronunciation: [mìn.nǎn]) or Banlam (Min Nan Chinese pronunciation:), is a group of linguistically similar and historically related Chinese languages that form a branch of Min Chinese spoken in Fujian (especially ...
Bopomofo is the predominant phonetic system in teaching, reading and writing in elementary school in Taiwan. In elementary school, particularly in the lower years, Chinese characters in textbooks are often annotated with Bopomofo as ruby characters as an aid to learning. Additionally, one children's newspaper in Taiwan, the Mandarin Daily News ...
For instance, the hanja ' 爲 ' was used for its native Korean gloss whereas ' 尼 ' was used for its Sino-Korean pronunciation, and combined into ' 爲尼 ' and read hani (하니), 'to do (and so).' [14] In Chinese, however, the same characters are read in Mandarin as the expression wéi ní, meaning 'becoming a nun'.
Yue (including the Cantonese and Taishanese variants) Min (including the Hokkien and Fuzhounese variants) Hakka (Kejia) Xiang (Hunanese) Gan (Jiangxinese) The revised classification of Li Rong, used in the Language Atlas of China (1987) added three further groups split from these: Mandarin → Jin. Wu → Huizhou. Yue → Pinghua.
金 (Korean "Kim" / Mandarin Chinese "Jin", meaning gold) គួច Kouch កាំង Kaing ឃាង Kheang ឃិន: Khin: Chinese 欽/钦 (respect, admiration) ឃីម Khim ចន្ទ: Chan/Chhan/Jan: Sanskrit word Candra (चन्द्र) meaning moon ចាន់ Chan ចាប Chap Bird ចេង Cheng ចេន: ceːn: Chen/Jen
Taiwanese Mandarin, frequently referred to as Guoyu ( Chinese: 國語; pinyin: Guóyǔ; lit. 'national language') or Huayu ( 華語; Huáyǔ; 'Chinese language'), is the variety of Mandarin Chinese spoken in Taiwan. A large majority of the Taiwanese population is fluent in Mandarin, though many also speak a variety of Min Chinese known as ...