闽南话

閩南話

mǐnnánhuà

noun

Meanings

1 Southern Min
2 Hokkien (Sinitic language of southern Fujian, Taiwan, and overseas Chinese communities)

Characters

Fujian (abbreviation)

speech, language

Examples

我爷爷在家只说闽南话。

Wǒ yéye zài jiā zhǐ shuō mǐnnánhuà.

My grandfather only speaks Hokkien at home.

闽南话和普通话差别很大。

Mǐnnánhuà hé pǔtōnghuà chābié hěn dà.

Hokkien and Mandarin are very different from each other.

Tips

culture

闽 is the single-character abbreviation for Fujian. 闽南话 is spoken in southern Fujian (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou), Taiwan (where it is called 台语), Hainan and by Chinese diaspora across Southeast Asia. It preserves many features of Middle Chinese lost in Mandarin.

Stroke Order

闽 mǐn

南 nán

话 huà