Great new resource - Minnan Fangyan Dictionary

julian · Post by **julian** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 11:20 am

Hi, I'm new to this forum. I have just finished reading (took a while!) the "Minnan Fangyan Da Cidan" published by fjpph (Fujian People Publishing) Dec 2006. ISBN 7-211-03896-9. Highly recommended to those of you interested in understanding Fujian (chinese) characters, with coverage of xiamen, zhangzhou, chuanzhou pronounciations.

It provides interesting insights into words like sabun (ie. soap commonly said in MY, SG, even Taiwan), pa-sat (market)etc

Equally fascinating is a book on Zhuangchew folks songs. Of particular interest as my cousin & I are compiling child hood songs for publication.

I haven't figured out how to attach images using the Img feature of this forum. If any of you are interested in "seeing" the books... please email me at mr_foodie@yahoo.com.

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ong · Post by **ong** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 11:57 am

We already knew about this.Please understand that the dict isn't that great at all. There are no other sects of words in cuanciu and ciangciu , some basic words are not even collected like scorpion ,this for cuanciu ,benzi are horrible etc.
There are even stupid mistake like origin of longpang.

ong · Post by **ong** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 2:32 pm

This is for Sim,
I bought a book by 姚景良 published in 1992 .好色 can be 講著查某目白舌吐 . For sure we can't find this good minnan word in above dict and others as well.