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 foreign Christian missionaries and the third by the Empire of Japan, but the rest were prepared by ethnic Chinese scholars.

Occasional updates to this dictionary still occur, and it is still used by Japanese learners of Hokkien and Japanese scholars. Example new edition:
 * 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) – Siáu-chhoan Siōng-gī (Naoyoshi Ogawa; 小川尚義) for the Office of the Governor-General of Taiwan It is a two volume set:
 * (in Taiwanese kana)
 * (in Taiwanese kana)
 * (in Taiwanese kana)
 * (in Taiwanese kana)
 * Sample page: Entries from 頑皮 to 網, p. 555, mirrored to GitHub by Lîm Chùn-io̍k [林俊育] under its old Taiwanese name, Tâi-ji̍t Tōa Sû-tián.

The above is also available in a modified form online, first edition 2008:
 * Practical English–Hokkien Dictionary (1950) – Chiang Ker Chiu (蒋克秋)
 * A comprehensive dictionary of Taiwanese, with sections on the Zhangzhou and Quanzhou varieties of Southern Min (1991) – Chén Xiū (陳修) and Chén Wénjīng (陳文晶)
 * Xiamen Fangyan Cidian (1993) – Zhou Changji (周长楫)
 * Dictionary of Taiwanese Vocabulary (1995) – Yáng Qīngchù (楊青矗)
 * Minnan Fangyan Da Cidian (2006) – Zhou Changji (周长楫) et al.
 * Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan (online; β ed. 2008; 1st ed. 2011) – Ministry of Education (Taiwan)
 * Longyan Fangyan Cidian 龙岩方言词典 (2016) – Guo Qixi (郭启熹) et al.
 * Longyan Fangyan Cidian 龙岩方言词典 (2016) – Guo Qixi (郭启熹) et al.