List of Hokkien dictionaries

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^{[note 1]} (1931)^{[note 2]} – Siáu-chhoan Siōng-gī (Naoyoshi Ogawa; 小川尚義)^{[note 3]} for the Office of the Governor-General of Taiwan^[3]
• Practical English–Hokkien Dictionary (1950) – Chiang Ker Chiu (蒋克秋)^[4]
• A comprehensive dictionary of Taiwanese, with sections on the Zhangzhou and Quanzhou varieties of Southern Min (1991) – Chén Xiū (陳修) and Chén Wénjīng (陳文晶)^[5]
• Xiamen Fangyan Cidian (1993) – Zhou Changji (周长楫)^[6]
• Dictionary of Taiwanese Vocabulary (1995) – Yáng Qīngchù (楊青矗)^[7]
• Minnan Fangyan Da Cidian (2006) – Zhou Changji (周长楫) et al.^[8]
• Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan (online; β ed. 2008; 1st ed. 2011) – Ministry of Education (Taiwan)^[9]
• Longyan Fangyan Cidian 龙岩方言词典 (2016) – Guo Qixi (郭启熹) et al.^[10]

Siáu-chhoan Siōng-gī (Naoyoshi Ogawa; 小川尚義), main author and editor of the Comprehensive Taiwanese–Japanese Dictionary (1931)

Further reading

• Cannings, Michael (1 February 2010). "Exhaustive listing of dictionaries of the Taiwanese language and related dialects" (PDF). Tailingua: Taiwanese, Southern Min, Hokkien. 1.1. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
• Hompot, Sebestyén (2018). Schottenhammer, Angela (ed.). "Xiamen at the Crossroads of Sino-Foreign Linguistic Interaction during the Late Qing and Republican Periods: The Issue of Hokkien Phoneticization" (PDF). Crossroads: Studies on the History of Exchange Relations in the East Asian World. 17/18. OSTASIEN Verlag: 167–205. ISSN 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

1. This is a literal translation; sometimes "comprehensive" (大) is not rendered as part of the English title, or it is translated even more literally as "big".
2. The first edition of volume one (上卷) was released in 1931, but volume two (下卷) was not released until 1932.
3. Later editions, after the fall of Imperial Japan, had substantial contributions by Âng Ûi-jîn.