Bungieen kab peqoe

Buun-peh-i-thak (文白異讀; lit. literary-colloquial different reading)

Reading pronunciations (thag'ym 讀音) differ from spoken pronunciations/explications (gwym 語音/kayseq 解說). Banlaam dictionaries in Taiwan often differentiate between such character readings with the prefixes 文 (buun) for the literary readings, and 白 (pek/peh) for colloquial readings.

Unlike other spoken Chinese varieties, characters used to read Zoanciw Hokkien have three different kinds of readings: literary (文 buun), colloquial (白 pek), and vulgar (俗 siok). For example, the readings for 肉 (meat) are: literary liak, colloquial hiak and vulgar baq; baq is the most commonly used reading.

Examples

The following examples<ref>Victor H. Mair, How to Forget Your Mother Tongue and Remember Your National Language, University of Pennsylvania</ref> show differences in literary and colloquial readings in Taiwanese Hokkien.

Sorji (數字; Numbers)

	1	2	3 / 三	4 / 四	5 / 五	6 / 六	7 / 七	8 / 八	9 / 九	10 / 十
Peh	cit (蜀)	nng (兩)	svaf	six	go	lak	chid	pøeq	kao	zap
Buun	id (一)	ji (二)	safm	sux	gvor	liok		pad	kiuo	sip

for more detail, see sorji and Tiexn'oe