List of Taiwanese Hokkien words commonly found in local Mandarin language newspapers and periodicals
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source: Taiwanese Mandarin
- ahpax 🔊 (壓霸; a local tyrant; a bully)
- lofbahkhaf 🔊 (滷肉腳; incompetent, foolish person; a person whose ability is unmatched with those around him.)
- Template:Ttsx (硬; obstinate(ly), tense (as of sing/performing))
- Template:Ttsx (合意; to like)
- kiernsiaux 🔊 (見笑; shy; bashful; sense of shame)
- Template:Ttsx (摃龜; to end up with nothing)
- Template:Ttsx (龜毛; picky; high-maintenance)
- khiu 🔊 (糗; description for food—soft and pliable (like mochi cakes))
- lauxkhokkhog 🔊 (老柝柝; old and senile)
- Template:Ttsx (拋拋走; to muck around)
- phvaysex 🔊 (歹勢; I beg your pardon; I am sorry; Excuse me.)
- Template:Ttsx (四配; (adj) well-suited to each other)
- taixcix 🔊 (代誌; an event; a matter; an affair)
- torngbøextiaau 🔊 (擋未住; can not bear something/compelled to do something)
- Template:Ttsx (當選; to win an election)
- Template:Ttsx (頭殼歹去; (you have/he has) lost (your/his) mind!)
- Template:Ttsx (脫箠‡; to go off the rails; to go wrong)
- urnciaxng (driver (of automotive vehicles); from Japanese 運ちゃん unchan, slang for 運転士 untenshi))
- Template:Ttsx (鬱卒; (adj) depressed; sulky; unhappy; moody)