Jian 'ou dialect, as a small member of the Chinese dialect family, has a lot of consistency with Putonghua in the grammatical expression of its real words, no matter the form, meaning or grammatical characteristics of the words. But since it is a dialect, it is bound to show differences from Mandarin.

Idiom Songs in Jian 'ou Dialect

Jian 'ou dialect is a sub-dialect of Min dialect. Therefore, its semantic features are more consistent with other sister dialects of Min dialect-Mindong (represented by Fuzhou dialect), Minnan (represented by Xiamen dialect) and Minzhong (represented by Yong 'an dialect). However, as an independent sub-dialect of Min dialect, it is obviously different from other sister dialects of Min dialect in terms of notional words, which embodies the characteristics of Northern Min dialect itself.

Bibliography: Jian 'ou Dialect Dictionary edited by Li Rulong and Pan Weishui (1998)

1. Some words in Jian 'ou dialect are completely different from Mandarin.

(The words in brackets are in Mandarin, the same below)

The sun (sun) is dark before the day (morning) (day) (night) and after the day (afternoon) (yesterday) (evening) is transparent (night leakage), the day is early (morning), and the daily work (every day) is cracked (cracked).

Flame knife (lightning) Xiping (riverside) Ding Jian (kitchen) cesspit (toilet) wooden bucket (pen holder and brush) hand (sleeve)

Pancreas (soap) eyes (eyes) arms (arms) chin (feet) chin (instep) play (play)

Exposure, baking, sipping, drinking, taking off, picking, picking and rubbing.

Sleeping (sleeping) Jacket (vest) Down (skirt) Grey egg (preserved egg) Sleeping (dozing off) The sun is shining (sunflower)

Wood louse (insect) cub (bird) boiled soup (boiled water) Mao cub (sparrow) stole chicken (eagle) cicada (cicada)

Overwork (carpenter), muddy water (muddy water or muddy water worker), needlework (tailor), needlework car (sewing machine), behind the hall (bathhouse) (mother's family)

Editor-in-Chief of Yashi (Good-looking) Magazine (Dragonfly) Good-looking (Cute) Electric Kettle (Thermoflask) Word Pen (Knowledge) Hide and Seek Monkey (Hide and Seek)

Make wine (play house), grow onions (stand upside down) and have diarrhea (diarrhea)? Abdominal cold (malaria)

Take a word (split) duck swing (dog climb) gun to sharpen (spear) the moon energy (rubber) desk cabinet (drawer) library edge fairy (neighbor)

2. Some words in Jian 'ou dialect are different from those in Mandarin.

It's raining (thunderstorm) and it's dark (cloudy). At the beginning of the year, at the end of the year.

February (February) May (Dragon Boat Festival) Winter (Winter solstice) August Mid-Autumn Festival (Mid-Autumn Festival)

Jiaoxia (Long Summer) Mountain Ridge (Valley) Roof (Roof) Shan Lun (Mountain Wind) Tile Slag (Broken Tile)

Broken bricks (broken bricks) dimples (dimples) tight hair (hair) (asthma) stars (stars)

Clothes (clothes) pants (shorts) collar (collar) button (button) tea (tea)

Pepper (pepper) hemp bamboo (bamboo) moss (moss) gang (gang) school (school)

School students (students) are ill and malnourished (malnutrition) wooden knife (kitchen knife) wooden basin (dishwashing basin) bathing (bathing)

Mubai jumps (somersault), inkstone tile board (inkstone platform), ink pen (writing brush), race (race) and rope skipping (rope skipping)

Pull the rope (pull the river), kick the ball (kick the shuttlecock), swim the bottom (swim), close the knife (broadsword) and sweet potato (sweet potato)

Persimmon (Tomato) Tofu (South Tofu) Tofu (North Tofu) Tofu (Dried Tofu) Croissant (Jiang Dou)

Tofu Niang (soybean milk) Niu Yueneng (milk) cage bed (steamer) ice? People (popsicles) are relatives (relatives)

3. The word order of some words in Jian 'ou dialect is different from that in Mandarin:

Sunny weather (sunny), illness (tuberculosis), dust (dust), guests (guests) hot (lively), like (happy).

Brother (brother) strength (strength) Deaf ear (deafness) bottom (bottom) head (front) redemption (redemption)

Bold matches (firewood) supplement (subsidize) stones (rocks) stone tablets (stone tablets) stone strips (strips)

Wind platform (typhoon) stinks (sour) ramie (ramie) hoof (hoof) cauliflower (cauliflower).

The shoe cover (overshoe) allows the vertical (conniving) style (style) rice barley (barley) wallboard (board wall) to fail (fall).

Binding (binding) title (title) Inherit (inherit) broken rice (broken rice) How cruel (how cruel)

Jealous (jealous) two brothers (brothers) two mothers (husband and wife) fireflies (fireflies) chickens (hens)

The square sign (archway) for measuring the gas (gas volume) of the chicken horn (cock) is suitable for (suitable for) the incense tower (tower incense).

The cost (expense) of going back and forth with incense hours (hours) Money paper (paper money)

4. Some monosyllabic words in Jian 'ou dialect are disyllabic words in Mandarin:

Paddy field (paddy field) Garden (dry land) Bed (bed) Straw (straw) Recommended (straw mat) Pot (pig food)

Pulp (paste) rope (rope) spit (spit) tail (tail) tongue (tongue) bee (bee)

Fly (fly) loach (loach) snail (screw) worm flea (cockroach) (son)

Harrier (Eagle) Mud (Mud) Strength (Diligence) Fear (Laziness) Charcoal (Charcoal) Mole (Mole)

Scale (dirt)

5. Some disyllabic words in Jian 'ou dialect are monosyllabic words in Mandarin:

Frost ice (ice) dew (dew) well (well) coal (coal) brain (brain) cheek (face)

Hungry (hungry), dry beak (thirsty), no job (busy), money tinea (tinea), old ginger (ginger), cicada (cicada)