Substitute character

There are a large number of informal Chinese characters used to write Hokkien.

• 829 such entries are marked by a thøex (替) icon in the Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan data used in MoeDict.

Examples

MoE Rec. Harnji	MTL
人	laang
肉	baq
這	zef / cid
彼	hid
一	cit
仔	ar
會	øe
袂	bøe (see bøexhiao)
毋	m
按呢	afnnef
遮爾	ciahni
偌濟	joaxzøe

Example words with one substitute character

• afnzvoar
• sviafmih
• tøfui
• thutzhøee (脫箠 to go off the rails; to go wrong)

See also

• Literary and colloquial readings of Chinese characters
• Twenty-seven Taiwanese words beginning with the backquote