Talk:Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi

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 2015 data contains approximately 20,123 entries and nearly 400 expressions/idioms. Uses Harnji and TL Romanization. This dictionary is included in the MTL Toolbox.

Organization (2015)

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, annotated with MTL and English)
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