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

Typical usage

  • input: Taiwanese word (often consists of two syllables joined together), for example:
  • the Toolbox "unjoins" words by database lookup
  • the results from historical works should be about the same as for:

Monosyllable

  • 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 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)
  • Add carat ^ before token to require token to be very first token in its column

See also

Acknowledgements