Written Hokkien

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Written Hokkien
Comparison of Hokkien writing systems
Chinese characters (Hàn-jī) Tale of the Lychee Mirror Koa-á books Doctrina Christiana en letra y lengua china Taiwanese Minnan Recommended Characters
Romanizations (Lô-má-jī) Pe̍h-ōe-jī Taiwanese Language Phonetic Alphabet Taiwanese Romanization System Bbánlám pìngyīm Daighi tongiong pingim Phofsit Daibuun Modern Literal Taiwanese
Mixed script (Hàn-lô)
Other transcriptions Taiwanese kana Taiwanese Phonetic Symbols Taiwanese hangul
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Hokkien, a variety of Chinese that forms part of the Southern Min family and is spoken in Southeastern China, Taiwan and Southeast Asia, does not have a unitary standardized writing system, in comparison with the well-developed written forms of Cantonese and Standard Chinese (Mandarin). In Taiwan, a standard for Written Hokkien has been developed by the Ministry of Education including its Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan, but there are a wide variety of different methods of writing in Vernacular Hokkien. Nevertheless, vernacular works written in Hokkien are still commonly seen in literature, film, performing arts and music.