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[[Category:Taiwanese words from Japanese]] [[category:Chinese terms borrowed from Japanese]]

'''''{{w|Wasei-kango}}''''' (Japanese-made Chinese words)

...the [[Zhefng-tiaau|Qing dynasty]]. Taiwanese also contains loanwords from Japanese and the native [[Formosan languages]], plus some [[Sepangaa-gie|Spanish]], As a variety of Hokkien, Taiwanese has many words with cognates in other Chinese varieties. False friends do exist; for example, '''{{x|zao}}''' ({{wt|走}}

Extensive contact with the Japanese language has left a legacy of '''Japanese loanwords'''. Here is a sampling. ...the ''[[Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan]]'' for a table of 172 Japanese loanwords (we have annotated MTL and English).

...andarin, late [[Middle Chinese]]), and {{w|Standard Chinese}}, such as the words for sun, ghost, water, river, horse, and bird. ...e". Bread, which we call "[[pharng]]", comes from Portuguese (pão, through Japanese).

A [[high tone]] is derived from raising a basic tone, and is represented by adding a tone indicator "f" aft A [[shouting tone|shouting-out tone]] is derived from shouting out a basic tone, and is represented by adding a tone indicator "r