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 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
• 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
• Comprehensive Taiwanese–Japanese Dictionary (1931) – (; ) for the Office of the Governor-General of Taiwan
• 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 XiÅ« () and Chén WénjÄ«ng ()
• Xiamen Fangyan Cidian (1993) – Zhou Changji ()
• Dictionary of Taiwanese Vocabulary (1995) – Yáng QÄ«ngchù ()
• Minnan Fangyan Da Cidian (2006) – Zhou Changji () et al.
• Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan (online; β 2008; 1st 2011) – Ministry of Education (Taiwan)
• 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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