Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan/Frequency of syllables

Frequency of syllables in the Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan

First 100 syllables

The 100 most frequent syllables are given below, converted from TRS to MTL. The top ten are: ar (867), thaau (291), kofng (170), chiuo (163), zuie (161), hofng (156), laang (152), sym (147), khaf (140), seg (133).

1. ar
2. thaau
3. kofng
4. chiuo
5. zuie
6. hofng
7. laang
8. sym
9. khaf
10. seg
11. hoad
12. ky
13. khix
14. syn
15. toa
16. kef
17. bøo
18. bin
19. kaf
20. te
21. chiaf
22. lie
23. lo
24. iuu
25. cie
26. sw
27. jiin
28. su
29. sefng
30. zhuix
31. oe
32. hwn
33. zhaix
34. kafng
35. zuo
36. tai
37. zhud
38. zeeng
39. khie
40. sii
41. heeng
42. hoea
43. jit
44. lek
45. køf
46. kex
47. kym
48. sex
49. hoe
50. siofng
51. ho
52. zexng
53. of
54. leeng
55. kii
56. hii
57. hoef
58. siøf
59. kor
60. lieen
61. koafn
62. zefng
63. bak
64. si
65. to
66. goa
67. bie
68. goaan
69. siin
70. buun
71. siw
72. nii
73. zex
74. peh
75. hoong
76. hae
77. cid
78. au
79. tong
80. tiofng
81. kefng
82. kaw
83. pud
84. tien
85. mngg
86. teng
87. kaux
88. kog
89. kae
90. tee
91. boea
92. ix
93. sie
94. buo
95. sexng
96. kerng
97. ciah
98. biin
99. tngg
100. khuy

• Complete list: File:Syllables in Kaohsiung-area Taiwanese (MoeDict).ods

Method

A frequency analysis was performed on the headwords of the Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan (as found in MoeDict). All sections were used except Japanese loanwords and idioms, but only main headwords were included (alternate readings were excluded). Each TRS was broken down into pre-sandhi syllables, yielding a total of 37,678 syllables, from which 2,128 unique syllables were counted. The syllables are sorted by frequency (count), then alphabetically, written in the original TRS, along with conversions to POJ and MTL.

See also

• List of all initial consonants
• Table of all finals in MTL
• Frequently-Used Taiwanese Monosyllables