Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan/Polysyllable homophones

Frequently-Used Taiwanese Polysyllable Homonyms were gathered by analyzing the Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan (MoeDict). We found 292 words that are written the same in TRS but have different meaning. They are all two-syllables using 145 TRS ranging from anleeng to zuxsyn.

After conversion to MTL, we identified 361 dictionary rows that are spelled alike and sound alike, and so are homophones. These 178 MTL, covering 214 TRS, are all two-syllable, usually matching two rows. Five MTL match three rows: hibang, honghoea, huiekhix, kofkex, teng'ar.

Full list

anleeng, baxnban, befthaau, bunbeeng, byseg, chiaciorng, chiahø, chiethaxm, chimjip, chit'ar, ciernsu, cionglaai, cirntong, cysi, goanheeng, goanthaau, goaxheeng, goaxsiofng, gyteng, haglek, hengseg, hengthaix, hibang, hichix, hiernsyn, hiexnkym, hoafn'exng, hoafnzexng, hoan'ar, hoansyn, hoatkag, hoeathaau, hogsip, honghioxng, honghoad, honghoan, honghoea, hongseg, hongtiaau, hongtiin, hongzuie, huiekhix, hunky, iaqar, iensvoax, in'ieen, iofng'iok, iogbong, iøqzef, iugvar, iusexng, ixteng, jinsu, jinsym, kanghw, kaohwn, kauar, kaukied, kayciuo, kayseg, kear, kefngkaix, kefngtix, keh'ar, kekafng, keng'ar, khiesex, khoanhan, khoat'ham, khoghii, khuiky, khypoef, kielok, kikhar, kileeng, kim'ar, kinzad, kioghan, kisw, ko'ar, koanciaux, koanlieen, koeato, kofkex, kokkaix, kong'eeng, kong'iong, kongzuo, kørpiet, kutkeq, kvoaxzuie, lamhofng, lienlok, lixhai, lyheeng, lyiuu, niuar, oankafng, pauhaam, pekkin, pengheeng, penghøo, phangzuie, pheklek, pintø, pipee, pitsw, pørsiuu, putcie, pvoachiaf, pvoaoe, senghau, sengtiorng, serngte, siausid, sidbut, sidiong, sinkii, siongbu, siongkaf, siongseg, siongsex, sirnhø, sirnsid, siusip, siusog, siuzuie, subin, suhoad, sutiern, sutviuo, tai'ar, taixcioxng, taixcix, taixkofng, taixliok, taixsw, tanghofng, tantok, tauar, taxngchiuo, tear, tefsvoax, teng'ar, tengsuun, texzuo, thekøf, thesefng, thiauar, thienpeeng, thongsixn, tiesuu, tiexnkhix, tiexnsixn, tngto, tofngkii, tongsii, toxkoex, vear, zaizeeng, zaizuo, zeahiexn, zeaphirn, zeng'efng, zengbie, zengcixn, zenggi, zengkerng, zhah'oe, zhuotviuo, zhutkex, zhutthaau, zhvezhaix, zhwkerng, zoancid, zoansyn, zøxheeng, zuxsyn

Method

• 14,980 rows of dictionary sections 1 and 5 were identified as polysyllable by TRS
• TRS was converted to MTL and Python collections.Counter() was used to count the frequency of MTL. A total of 14,797 distinct MTL words were found, suggesting several homophones exist
• 361 rows (2.3%) are homophones, written with 178 distinct MTL and 214 distinct TRS

See also

• MTL words with double reverse mapping
• Frequently-Used Taiwanese Monosyllables