闽南话 閩南話
闽南话閩南話 in English
- Southern Min, a family of Sinitic languages spoken in southern Fujian and surrounding areas / Hokkien, major variety of Southern Min
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
闽
These are the forms of 閩, the traditional character: 闽 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 西漢 - See all 3 forms
南
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 21 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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闽语包括闽东话、闽南话、闽北话、闽中话和莆仙话。然而，这五种方言之间的互通性非常有限。
Min consists of Eastern Min, Southern Min, Northern Min, Central Min and Pu-Xian Min. However, these five dialects have very limited mutual intelligibility.