Chinese languages

Hi Sim, The grace said before meals you mentioned is a common one among the Holó Christians. Here is my transliteration: 感謝天父 Kám siā thinn pē 賞賜米糧 Siúnn sù bí niû Hō· 阮 (通) 吃 Hō· gún (thang) chiáh 靠主功勞, 心所願 Khò Chú kong-lô, sim só· guān . Line 1: 'Thank you Heavenly Father'. The pē is the vernacula...

If my recollection is correct, it was about 3 years ago. Thanks for your new pictures.

Heruler

Hi Mark, Unfortunately there are no hard rules to go by. It's mostly according to customary usage. For examples: 作 in literary reading is chok : chok-chiá 作者, chok-ka 作家, chok-phín 作品, but choh in vernacular reading: choh-chhân 作田, chèng-choh 種作. There is an excellent book published in Taiwan, 實用漢字台...

Hi Sim,

Wow! Such thorough scholarship! I am totally impressed.

Heruler

Hi ong,

I am very grateful for the useful information you so kindly provided.

Heruler

Hi ong, Sorry to bother you again. You seem to possess both the abridged and bigger versions. Do you find the word 水灵 'beautiful' in the bigger version too? Also, would you kindly inform me of the authors (or compilers), publisher, and year of publication of the abridged version? And ISBN number, if...

Hi ong, Thank you for the information on the dangdang Web site and also for the bigger version of the dictionary. My questions are, Is the abridged version an extract from the bigger version? Are the authors the same (马思周, 姜光辉) for both versions? I went to the Web site to search for the abridged ver...

Hi ong,

I am interested in purchasing the dictionary you referred to, 简明东北方言词典. How and where can I buy one without going to China?

Thank you in advance for any information you can provide.

Heruler

Hi niuc, Remember, 甘藍 is the Chinese name for cabbage, whereas ko-lê is the traditional vernacular name used by the Holó people. It was during the colonial era that the Japanese government in Taiwan adopted the kanji 高麗菜 for cabbage. Later, through the international trades, the name got spread to ot...

Hi all, Here are some pictures taken at a recent fire festival (Burning king's ship 燒王船) in Tangkang 東港, Taiwan. Because of my bandwidth limit in uploading the pictures, I have to select just these few pictures out of many. Hope you can vicariously join the crowd and have a good time. First is the p...