MTL Toolbox

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MTL Toolbox (https://learntaiwanese.org/MTLtoolbox/about.html) is software and data to help work with written Taiwanese using the MTL writing system and other romanizations for Taiwanese.

Features

How to search

  • for a monosyllable, exact matches are displayed by default
  • to see more matching entries, click "Khahzøe"

Data

Local copies of:

We also support searching other websites with conversion to POJ/TL:

Technical Notes

  • SQLite: FTS4 for full-text search
  • Token prefix queries: use the asterisk ('*') at the end. Similar to but not same as the wildcard character in operating systems (normal wildcard search not currently supported by FTS)
  • Specify a column-name followed by a colon (':')
    • Example: thj:頭* (you should see all DFT entries starting with this Harnji)

See Also

Acknowledgements