Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan/Polysyllable homophones

Frequently-Used Taiwanese Polysyllable Homophones were gathered by analyzing the Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan (MoeDict). After we converted the original TL to MLT or MTL, we found 361 entries (rows) that are homophones. All are two-syllable, covering 178 MTL that usually match two rows each. Just five MTL match three rows each: hibang, honghøea, 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, høeathaau, hogsip, honghioxng, honghoad, honghoan, honghøea, 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, køear, 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, køeato, 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, serngtøe, 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, te'ar, 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 TL: 12,447 duosyllable, 2,105 trisyllable, 426 four-syllable, and just 2 five-syllable. Analysis was done in Python using collections.Counter()
• Only some of the duosyllables are written the same in TL: 292 words overlap on 145 distinct TL
• TL was converted to MTL to reveal the homophones. A total of 14,797 distinct MTL were counted
• The homophones are 361 rows (2.3%) that overlap on 178 MTL (1.2%). Those rows cover 214 TL.

See also

• polysyllables that become homonyms after conversion to MLT
• DFT monosyllables