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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 in ...

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, also known as Minnan dictionaries or

Taiwanese Taiwanese may refer to: * Taiwanese language, another name for Taiwanese Hokkien * Something from or related to Taiwan ( Formosa) * Taiwanese aborigines, the indigenous people of Taiwan * Han Taiwanese, the Han people of Taiwan * Taiwanese people, ...

dictionaries, sorted by the date of the release of their first edition. The first two were prepared by foreign Christian missionaries and the third by the

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, but the rest were prepared by ethnic Chinese scholars. * '' A Dictionary of the Hok-këèn Dialect of the Chinese Language'' (1832) –

Walter Henry Medhurst Walter Henry Medhurst (29 April 179624 January 1857), was an English Congregationalist missionary to China, born in London and educated at St Paul's School. He was one of the early translators of the Bible into Chinese-language editions. Earl ...

* ''Chinese–English Dictionary of the

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or Spoken Language of Amoy, with the Principal Variations of the Chang-chew and Chin-chew Dialects'' (1873) –

Carstairs Douglas Carstairs Douglas () (born 27 December 1830 in Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire; died 26 July 1877 in Xiamen, China) was a Scottish missionary, remembered chiefly for his writings concerning the Southern Min language of Fujian, in particular his ''Chine ...

and Thomas Barclay * ''Comprehensive Taiwanese–Japanese Dictionary''This is a literal translation; sometimes "comprehensive" () is not rendered as part of the English title, or it is translated even more literally as "big". (1931)The first edition of volume one () was released in 1931, but volume two () was not released until 1932. – (; )Later editions, after the fall of Imperial Japan, had substantial contributions by Âng Ûi-jîn. for the Office of the Governor-General of Taiwan * ''Practical English–Hokkien Dictionary'' (1950) – Chiang Ker Chiu () * ''A comprehensive dictionary of Taiwanese, with sections on the

Zhangzhou Zhangzhou (), alternately romanized as Changchow, is a prefecture-level city in Fujian Province, China. The prefecture around the city proper comprises the southeast corner of the province, facing the Taiwan Strait and surrounding the prefec ...

and Quanzhou varieties of

Southern Min Southern Min (), Minnan (Mandarin pronunciation: ) or Banlam (), is a group of linguistically similar and historically related Sinitic languages that form a branch of Min Chinese spoken in Fujian (especially the Minnan region), most of Taiwan ( ...

'' (1991) – Chén Xiū () and Chén Wénjīng () * ''Xiamen Fangyan Cidian'' (1993) – Zhou Changji () * ''Dictionary of Taiwanese Vocabulary'' (1995) – Yáng Qīngchù () * ''Minnan Fangyan Da Cidian'' (2006) – Zhou Changji () et al. * ''

Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan The ''Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan'' () is a dictionary of Taiwanese Hokkien (including Written Hokkien) commissioned by the Ministry of Education of Taiwan. The dictionary uses the Taiwanese Romanization System (based on pe̍h-� ...

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; β 2008; 1st 2011) –

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Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

) (in Taiwanese Mandarin and Taiwanese Hokkien) (in Tâi-lô) * ''Longyan Fangyan Cidian'' (2016) – Guo Qixi () et al.

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