Pe̍h-ōe-jī

Peh -oe - jī ( IPA: [ peʔ ˩ ue ˩ dzi ˨ ] ), also known as Church Romanization, abbreviated POJ, is a Latinized transliteration for all variants of the Sinitic language Min Nan, including Taiwanese, Amoy, Hokkien and Teochew.

History

POJ was developed by Western Catholic missionaries between the 16th and 19th centuries AD, in order to convert Chinese who immigrated to the colonies in Southeast Asia to Catholicism. POJ was also used in the first newspaper in Taiwan, the Taiwan Church News.

At times the Japanese colonial period in Taiwan (1895-1945) was POJ displaced by occupiers and later, from 1895 to 1945, during the martial law period of the Kuomintang (中国 国民党/中国 国民党) strongly criticized. In Fujian, the use of POJ declined since the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Nowadays POJ is mostly used by Taiwanese Christians and Christian Chinese in Southeast Asia.

Dictionaries

  • Peh -oe - jī dictionary
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