Bungieen kab peqoe: Difference between revisions

* '''Colloquial readings''' ({{gs|pegthok|白讀}}) are usually used in normal speech.  

*'''Literary readings''' ({{gs|bunthok|文讀}}) of [[Harnji]] are usually used in formal loan words or names, when reading aloud and in formal settings.

* For example, {{wt|白}} has two readings:

** Colloquial: '''{{tx|peh}}''', as in '''{{tx|[[peqzhaix]]}}''' (Chinese cabbage)

** Literary: '''{{tx|pek}}''', as in '''{{tx|zuxpek}}''' (confession)

* Some characters have multiple and unrelated pronunciations, adapted to represent Hokkien words. For example, the word ''[[baq]]'' ("meat") may be written with the character 肉, which has etymologically unrelated colloquial and literary readings:

** Colloquial: ''{{tx|hek}}''

** Literary: ''{{tx|jiok}}'', as in {{gs|kutjiok|骨肉|flesh and blood; kindred}}

* '''Vernacular readings''', marked {{gs|siok|俗}}, are relatively rare. See {{gs|pof|埠}}, {{gs|lok|錄}}, {{gs|kiok|劇}}, for example.