List of Hokkien dictionaries explained

Below is a list of Hokkien dictionaries, also known as Minnan dictionaries or Taiwanese 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 Empire of Japan, but the rest were prepared by ethnic Chinese scholars.

• A Dictionary of the Hok-këèn Dialect of the Chinese Language (1832) – Walter Henry Medhurst^[1]
• Chinese–English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy, with the Principal Variations of the Chang-chew and Chin-chew Dialects (1873) – Carstairs Douglas and Thomas Barclay^[2]
• Comprehensive Taiwanese–Japanese Dictionary^[3] (1931)^[4] – Siáu-chhoan Siōng-gī|italic=no (; Japanese: 小川尚義)^[5] for the Office of the Governor-General of Taiwan^[6]
• Practical English–Hokkien Dictionary (1950) – Chiang Ker Chiu (Chinese: 蒋克秋)^[7]
• A comprehensive dictionary of Taiwanese, with sections on the Zhangzhou and Quanzhou varieties of Southern Min (1991) – Chén Xiū and Chén Wénjīng ^[8]
• Xiamen Fangyan Cidian (1993) – Zhou Changji (Chinese: 周长楫)^[9]
• Dictionary of Taiwanese Vocabulary (1995) – Yáng Qīngchù (Chinese: 楊青矗)^[10]
• Minnan Fangyan Da Cidian (2006) – Zhou Changji (Chinese: 周长楫) et al.^[11]
• Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan (online; β 2008; 1st 2011) – Ministry of Education (Taiwan)^[12]
• Longyan Fangyan Cidian Chinese: 龙岩方言词典 (2016) – Guo Qixi (Chinese: 郭启熹) et al.^[13]

Further reading

• Web site: Exhaustive listing of dictionaries of the Taiwanese language and related dialects . Cannings . Michael . Tailingua: Taiwanese, Southern Min, Hokkien . 2010-02-01 . 1.1 . 2020-06-28.

Further reading

• Hompot . Sebestyén . 2018 . Schottenhammer . Angela . Xiamen at the Crossroads of Sino-Foreign Linguistic Interaction during the Late Qing and Republican Periods: The Issue of Hokkien Phoneticization . Crossroads: Studies on the History of Exchange Relations in the East Asian World . OSTASIEN Verlag . 17/18 . 167-205 . 2190-8796. - Chapter examining and detailing the history of Hokkien dictionaries and similar works and the history of Hokkien writing systems over the centuries, especially phonetic scripts for Hokkien

Notes and References

1. Book: Medhurst, Walter Henry . A Dictionary of the Hok-këèn Dialect of the Chinese Language . . 1832 . Steyn . G. J. . . en, nan-tw . 807002706. (Early Church Romanization) (Linked copy digitized by University of California Libraries)
2. Book: Douglas, Carstairs . Chinese–English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy, with the Principal Variations of the Chang-chew and Chin-chew Dialects . Barclay . Thomas . Trübner & Co. . 1873 . London . 1041793189 . en, nan-tw. (Pe̍h-ōe-jī) (Linked copy digitized by the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library)
3. This is a literal translation; sometimes "comprehensive" (Chinese: 大) is not rendered as part of the English title, or it is translated even more literally as "big".
4. The first edition of volume one (Chinese: 上卷) was released in 1931, but volume two (Chinese: 下卷) was not released until 1932.
5. Later editions, after the fall of Imperial Japan, had substantial contributions by Âng Ûi-jîn.
6. It is a two volume set:
   • Book: Siáu-chhoan Siōng-gī [Naoyoshi Ogawa 小川尚義] . 1931 . Tâi-ji̍t Tōa Sû-tián . ja:臺日大辭典 . Comprehensive Taiwanese–Japanese Dictionary . ja, nan-tw . 1 . . . 10.11501/2534201 . (in Taiwanese kana)
   • Book: Siáu-chhoan Siōng-gī [Naoyoshi Ogawa 小川尚義] . 1932 . Tâi-ji̍t Tōa Sû-tián . ja:臺日大辭典 . Comprehensive Taiwanese–Japanese Dictionary . ja, nan-tw . 2 . . . 10.11501/2534201 . (in Taiwanese kana)

   Occasional updates to this dictionary still occur, and it is still used by Japanese learners of Hokkien and Japanese scholars. Example new edition:

   • Book: Âng Ûi-jîn [洪惟仁] . Siáu-chhoan Siōng-gī [Naoyoshi Ogawa 小川尚義] . 1993 . zh:閩南語經典辭書彙編 . Minnan Classic Dictionary Collection . ja, nan-tw . 1 . . Wǔlíng Publishing House [武陵出版社] . 9789573506195 . (in Taiwanese kana)
   • Book: Âng Ûi-jîn [洪惟仁] . Siáu-chhoan Siōng-gī [Naoyoshi Ogawa 小川尚義] . 1993 . zh:閩南語經典辭書彙編 . Minnan Classic Dictionary Collection . ja, nan-tw . 2 . . Wǔlíng Publishing House [武陵出版社] . 9789573506225 . (in Taiwanese kana)

   Sample page: Entries from 頑皮 to 網, , mirrored to GitHub by Lîm Chùn-io̍k [{{lang|nan-tw|林俊育}}] under its old Taiwanese name, Tâi-ji̍t Tōa Sû-tián.The above is also available in a modified form online, first edition 2008:

   • Web site: Âng Ûi-jîn [洪惟仁] . Siáu-chhoan Siōng-gī [Naoyoshi Ogawa, 小川尚義] . 2019 . 2020-07-06 . Digitized by Sih Sîng-hông [薛丞宏] and Lîm Chùn-io̍k [林俊育] . https://taigi.fhl.net/dict/ . . Repository of Materials for the Minnan/Hakka Languages [閩客語典藏] . zh:台語辭典(台日大辭典台語譯本)查詢2019 . Comprehensive Taiwanese Dictionary Search Engine, version 2019 . nan-tw.
7. Web site: 2020-03-25 . A Practical English–Hokkien Dictionary . 2020-06-28 . NUS Libraries (LiNUS) . article . National University of Singapore.
8. Book: Tân Siu (Chén Xiū 陳修) . Tân Bûn-tsing (Chén Wénjīng 陳文晶) . 1991 . zh:台灣話大詞典：閩南話漳泉二腔系部分 . A comprehensive dictionary of Taiwanese, with sections on the Zhangzhou and Quanzhou varieties of Southern Min . nan-tw . 1st . . Yuǎnliú Publishing Company [遠流出版公司] . 957-32-1411-3 . 43591588 . subscription . (in predominately Tn̂g-lâng-jī but has Pe̍h-ōe-jī pronunciations)
9. Book: Zhou Changji [周长楫]. 1993 . zh:廈門方言詞典 . Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects [現代漢語方言大詞典]. zh . . Jiangsu Education Publishing House [江蘇教育出版社] . 7534319951 .
10. Book: Iông Tshing-tshun [Yáng Qīngchù 楊靑矗] . 1995 . zh:台語語彙辭典 . Dictionary of Taiwanese Vocabulary . nan-tw . . Dūnlǐ Distributors [敦理經銷] . 957-9236-07-0 . 848886358 . (in predominately Tn̂g-lâng-jī but has Bopomofo pronunciations)
11. Book: Zhou Changji [周长楫]. 2006 . zh:闽南方言大词典 . Minnan Fangyan Da Cidian . zh . . Fujian People's Publishing House [福建人民出版社] . 9787211038961 .
12. Web site: zh:臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 . Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan . nan-tw, zh-tw . Ministry of Education, Taiwan . 28 June 2020. (in Taiwanese Mandarin and Taiwanese Hokkien) (in Tâi-lô)
13. Book: Guo Qixi [郭启熹]. 2016 . zh:龙岩方言词典 . zh . . Lujiang Publishing House [鹭江出版社] . 9787545911268 .