Bbánlám Uē Pìngyīm Hōng'àn (), Bbánlám pìngyīm, Minnan pinyin or simply pingyim, is a

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system for

Hokkien The Hokkien () variety of Chinese is a Southern Min language native to and originating from the Minnan region, where it is widely spoken in the south-eastern part of Fujian in southeastern mainland China. It is one of the national languages ...

Southern Min, in particular the Amoy (Xiamen)

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of this language. This alphabet was developed by

Xiamen University Xiamen University (; Southern Min: ''Ē-mn̂g-toā-o̍h''), colloquially known as Xia Da (; Southern Min: ''Hā-tāi''), is a national public research university in Xiamen, Fujian, China. Founded in 1921 by Tan Kah Kee, a Chinese patriotic e ...

Names

Various names are used such as Bbínpīn Hōngàn (), BbínPīn or BP (). It is commonly known as Pumindian () in Taiwan, named after the Mandarin-Southern Min Dictionary () where the system is used, but the formal Chinese name is Southern Min Language Spelling System ().

Alphabet

The BP alphabet adopts the

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of 20 letters, 5 digraphs and 5

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s to express the basic sounds of the Min Nan language:

Notes

External links

Southern Min Dialect Spelling System
Romanization of Hokkien Southern Min Writing systems introduced in the 20th century {{latin-script-stub