Readings of "理由" (reason, cause) in CJKV languages

🇨🇳 lǐyóu
🇭🇰 lei5 jau4
🇹🇼 lí-iû
🇯🇵 rìyúú, wáꜜkè
🇰🇷 iːyu
🇰🇵 riːyu
🇻🇳 lí do

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揽佬SKAI ISYOURGOD-《大展鸿图》ft.AR刘夫阳 (2025)

#MemphisRap #Guangdong #Hokkien #Chaoshan

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In Taiwan, Grabbing 'Boba' Means Something Else Entirely Pearl tea, bubble tea, bubble cup, and boba are the most common names we use to refer to our favorite tea-based, tapioca ball-filled drink from Taiwan.

I always struggle with calling bubble tea ‘boba’ because in my native language (and Taiwan’s) it means ‘big boobs’

https://nextshark.com/taiwan-boba-milk-tea

#Tea #Food #ChineseFood #Hokkien

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I can actually understand it! Well, ok almost; their accent makes it difficult for me to completely understand them. (My version of Hokkien has a very, very different accent.) Cool that Fujian aka Hokkien is kinda similar to my Hokkien

https://youtu.be/I9yXbyyfP70?si=oT7krCL5e_gPrqWk

#Hokkien […]

Das ist eine der selteneren Versionen meines Songs! Die taiwanesische (Hokkien) Adaptation von "Was uns verbindet" hat einen ganz eigenen musikalischen Charakter. Ein spezieller Gruß an Taiwanesisch-Sprecher – #Taiwanese #Hokkien #SelteneSprachen

"Shinkansen" 🚄 in CJK languages

🇨🇳 新干线 (xīngànxiàn)
🇭🇰 新幹線 (san1 gon3 sin3)
🇹🇼 新幹線 (sin-kàn-sòaⁿ)
🇯🇵 新幹線 (shìńkáꜜǹsèǹ)
🇰🇷 신칸센 (sinkansen)

#langtwt #Chinese #Mandarin #Cantonese #Hokkien #Japanese #Korean

"October" 🎃 in CJKV languages

🇨🇳 十月 (shíyuè)
🇭🇰 十月 (sap6 jyut6)
🇹🇼 十月 (tsa̍p-ge̍rh, tsa̍p-ge̍h, tsa̍p-gue̍h, tsa̍p-guē, tsa̍p-gēr)
🇯🇵 十月 (jùúgátsúꜜ¹, jùúgátsú²)
🇰🇷 시월 (十月, siwol)
🇻🇳 tháng mười

¹ noun
² adverb

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Readings of "一時" (temporarily) in CJKV languages

🇨🇳 yīshí
🇭🇰 jat1 si4
🇹🇼 tsi̍t-sî, it-sî
🇯🇵 ìchíꜜjì
🇰🇷 ilsi
🇻🇳 nhất thời

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"Economy" in CJKV languages

🇨🇳 经济 (jīngjì)
🇭🇰 經濟 (ging1 zai3)
🇹🇼 經濟 (keng-chè, king-tsè)
🇯🇵 経済 (keizai, kéꜜèzàì)
🇰🇷 경제 (經濟, gyeongje)
🇻🇳 kinh tế (經濟)

#Mandarin #Cantonese #Taiwanese #Hokkien #SouthernMin #Chinese #Japanese #Korean #Vietnamese #langsky #Hanzi #Kanji #Hanja #China #Japan #Korea #Vietnam

The Polyglot Migrant Worker: from Kalimantan to Taiwan. Charis Chen on #Indonesian, #Dayak, #Hakka → English, #Hokkien, #Mandarin - dictionary days, site interpreting, and a life changed by languages.

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#Hakka #MigrantVoices #LangSky #LanguageLearning

Readings of "孤兒院" (orphanage) in different languages

🇨🇳 gū'éryuàn
🇭🇰 gu1 ji4 jyun6-2
🇹🇼 koo-jî-īnn, koo-lî-īnn
🇯🇵 kòjíꜜìǹ
🇰🇷 goawon
🇻🇳 cô nhi viện

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Readings of "將來" (future) in different languages

🇨🇳 jiānglái
🇭🇰 zoeng1 loi4
🇹🇼 chiong-lâi, chiong-lâi
🇯🇵 shóꜜòràì (しょうらい)
🇰🇷 jangnae (장래)
🇻🇳 tương lai

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Readings of "の" in different languages

🇨🇳 de, zhī
🇭🇰 dik1, zi1
🇹🇼 ê
🇯🇵 no

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#Taiwanese #Taigi #Hokkien phrase of the week
sī-ui ūn-tōng (TRS)
sī-ui ūn-tōng (POJ)
示威運動
demonstration, protest march
This was during my first visit to Taiwan in 1989. Connecting with my Taiwanese roots meant street protests against fascists.

In Philippine #Hokkien, one way to pluralize nouns is to add a numeral and a classifier.

You can also use a pluralized noun from English but if you use the Tagalog pluralizer mga and add a numeral and a classifier, it is ungrammatical 😱

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#Taiwanese #Taigi #Hokkien phrase of the week
khang-khang pān-kong-tshù (TRS)
khang-khang pān-kong-chhù (POJ)
空空的辦公處
Empty office
During covid, I spent a day at my office expecting zombies to attack.
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#Taiwanese #Hokkien #Taigi phrase of the week
pháinn lâng (TRS)
pháiⁿ lâng (POJ)
歹人
Bad people
This map shows the PRC military movements around Taiwan for just the month of April, 2025
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#Taiwanese #Hokkien #Taigi phrase of the week
Tâi-bí lâng Bí-tang hā-lēng hōe (POJ)
Tâi-bí lâng Bí-tang hā-līng hūe (TRS)
台美人美東夏令會
Taiwanese American Conference/East Coast
Artist Chao-Min Liu (劉兆民) painted this beautiful memory of the 2011 TAC/EC tacec.org

#Taiwanese #Hokkien #Taigi phrase of the week
tsòng-lia̍t hi-sing (TRS)
chòng-lia̍t hi-seng (POJ)
壯烈犧牲
die for one's country

莊秋雄 uē 鄭南榕 shortly after he martyred himself in flames refusing to be arrested for his advocacy for Taiwan independence and freedom of speech.

#Taiwanese #Hokkien #Taigi phrase of the week
m̄-tio̍h hîng-uî (TRS)
m̄-tio̍h hêng-uî (POJ)
不對行為
wrong actions

This map shows the wrong actions of the PRC military for only the month of March, 2025

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I have a whole bunch of marine puns in a different language that I doubt more than 1 other person at work would understand.

In Taiwanese / Hokkien,

‘Hae’ means shrimp
‘Heh’ means fish

So since I was a child my cousins and I have always been saying shrimp shrimp shrimp or fish fish fish for […]

#Taiwanese #Hokkien #Taigi phrase of the week
khì-kong (TRS)
khì-kong (POJ)
氣功
Yoga-like art of breathing strength into one's body. At the Evolve Foundation , I had a chance to do khì-kong with a young man with Tourette syndrome. Thanks to Talking Taiwan for the Su Beng t-shirt

Pai Ti Kong in Penang Celebrate Hokkien New Year with a bang!

Joss sticks the size of tree trunks? Check. Feasts that could feed an army? Double check. All-night fireworks? You bet. 🏮🎆 Dive into Penang’s most explosive festival – Pai Ti Kong! Read more 👉 www.pipeaway.com/pai-ti-kong-... #ChineseNewYear #Hokkien

#Taiwanese #Hokkien #Taigi phrase of the week
留佇咱的血內底
lâu tī lán ê hoeh lāi té (POJ)
lâu tī lán ê hueh lāi té (TRS)
flows inside our blood
鄭宜農 Enno Cheng released a song inspired by #WhiteTerror victim Kuo Ching/郭慶 and his daughter Kuo Su-Chen/郭素貞's story

"Semantic reading of Chinese characters" in CJKV languages

🇨🇳 训读 (xùndú)
🇭🇰 訓讀 (fan3 duk6)
🇹🇼 訓讀 (hùn-tho̍k)
🇯🇵 訓読み (kùń-yó-mí), 訓読 (kùń-dókú)
🇰🇷 훈ː독 (訓讀)
🇻🇳 huấn độc (訓讀)

#langsky #Chinese #Mandarin #Cantonese #Hokkien #Japanese #Korean #Vietnamese

#Taiwanese #Hokkien #Taigi phrase of the week
tshíng-guān (TRS)
chhéng-goān (POJ)
請願
petition
On Feb 4th, the Trump administration appointed Darren Beattie to the third highest position in the US state department as an acting role. (1/3)

"Hydrogen" in CJKV languages

🇨🇳 氢 (qīng), 水素 (shuǐsù)¹
🇭🇰 氫 (hing1)
🇹🇼 氫 (kheng², khin³), 水素 (chúi-sò͘)¹
🇯🇵 水素 (すい.そ, súꜜìsò)
🇰🇷 수소 (水素, suso)
🇻🇳 hiđro⁴

¹ rare
² literary
³ vernacular
⁴ alt. spellings: hyđrô, hi-đrô, hy-đrô, hiđrô

#Chinese #Mandarin #Cantonese #Hokkien #Japanese #Korean #Vietnamese

"Empire" in CJKV languages

🇨🇳 帝国 (dìguó)
🇭🇰 帝國 (dai3 gwok3)
🇹🇼 帝國 (tè-kok)
🇯🇵 帝国 (てい.こく, tèékókú, téꜜèkòkù)
🇰🇷 제ː국 (帝國, jeguk)
🇻🇳 đế quốc (帝國)

#langsky #Chinese #Mandarin #Cantonese #Hokkien #Japanese #Korean #Vietnamese