Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan

Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典) was released by the Ministry of Education in 2011. The data included by MoeDict contains approximately 20,123 entries and nearly 400 expressions/idioms. Uses Harnji and TL Romanization. This dictionary is included in the MTL Toolbox.

Organization

1. 13,616 rows: 2,936 monosyllables, 8,302 duosyllables, 1,971 trisyllables, 405 four-syllable, 2 five-syllable
2. 1,819 rows: all monosyllables
3. 172 loanwords (PDF),
4. empty
5. 4,300 rows: 4,145 duosyllables, 134 trisyllables, 21 four-syllable
6. 388 idioms

• More than 3,700 Harnji counted in Section 1 and 5 headwords. Top ten: 仔, 頭, 人, 大, 水, 手, 心, 無, 跤, 公
  • Top homographic rows: 籠: six rows
• About 4,300 Harnji-readings counted in Section 1 and 5 polysyllables
  • About 2,400 trace back to Section 1 monosyllables. Top ten: [仔, ar ], [頭, thaau ], [水, zuie ], [手, chiuo ], [人, laang ], [心, sym ], [跤, khaf ], [大, toa ], [無, bøo ], [面, bin ]
  • More than 1,800 do not trace to Section 1 monosyllables. Top ten: [機, ky ], [原, goaan ], [明, beeng ], [行, heeng ], [查, zaf ], [觀, koafn ], [商, siofng ], [應, exng ], [當, tofng ], [護, ho ]
• Syllable frequency
• Homophones: monosyllable; polysyllable
• Twenty-seven words beginning with double hyphen

External URL

• 教育部臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典

See also

• MoeDict
• Taiwanese words from Japanese
• MTL words with double reverse mapping