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