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 Western Christian missionaries and the third by the Empire of Japan, but the rest were prepared by ethnic Hoklo scholars.
A Dictionary of the Hok-këèn Dialect of the Chinese Language (1832) – Walter Henry Medhurst (Early Church Romanization) (Linked copy digitized by University of California Libraries) 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 (Pe̍h-ōe-jī) (Linked copy digitized by the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library) Comprehensive Taiwanese–Japanese DictionaryThis 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 TaiwanIt is a two volume set: (in Taiwanese kana) (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: (in Taiwanese kana) (in Taiwanese kana) Sample page: Entries from to , , mirrored to GitHub by Lîm Chùn-io̍k [] under its old Taiwanese name, Tâi-ji̍t Tōa Sû-tián. The above is also available in a modified form online, first edition 2008:
Practical English–Hokkien Dictionary (1950) – Chiang Ker Chiu () A comprehensive dictionary of Taiwanese, with sections on the Zhangzhou and Quanzhou varieties of Southern Min (1991) – Chén Xiū () and Chén Wénjīng () (in predominately Tn̂g-lâng-jī but has Pe̍h-ōe-jī pronunciations) Xiamen Fangyan Cidian (1993) – Zhou Changji () Dictionary of Taiwanese Vocabulary (1995) – Yáng Qīngchù () (in predominately Tn̂g-lâng-jī but has Bopomofo pronunciations) Minnan Fangyan Da Cidian (2006) – Zhou Changji () et al. Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan (online; β 2008; 1st 2011) – Ministry of Education (Taiwan) (in Taiwanese Mandarin and Taiwanese Hokkien) (in Tâi-lô) Longyan Fangyan Cidian (2016) – Guo Qixi () et al.
Further reading
- 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
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