How do you say hello in Taiwan?

Answer 1

In Taiwanese, the correct phrase is: 為蝦米。

To write it out in ㄅㄆㄇㄈ, you write:ㄨㄟˊ ㄒ一ㄚ¯ ㄇ一ˇ。

To write it out in Hanyu Pinyin, you write: Wéixiāmǐ.

This is opposed to Chinese, where they would say 為甚麼 (ㄨㄟˋㄕㄣˊㄇㄜ˙/Wèishénme).

Hope that helps!

Answer 2

Zai jian (Zai4 Jian4) is Mandarin, not Taiwanese.

My family says "Zai ken", which is the Taiwanese (Minnan/Hoklo) for goodbye. I don't know how to number the 7 Taiwanese tones. If you know Mandarin tones, the zai is approximately 4th tone, and ken (the k is between g and k, and probably corresponds to g in mandarin) is 3rd tone. It uses the same characters in Taiwanese as zai jian in Mandarin.

The reason most people don't know it is that even many Taiwanese people, when speaking in the Taiwanese language, throw in words from other languages and say "bye bye", zai jian, or even sayonara (the older generation). The Taiwanese language and culture were severely repressed by the KMT government of Chiang Kai Shek and his son, who came to Taiwan in 1945 after Japan lost WW-II and had to give up Taiwan. The Chiangs were not Taiwanese but Chinese, and wanted to destroy Taiwanese culture. Speaking Taiwanese (as well as Japanese, Hakka and aboriginal languages) in public was illegal from 1945 until the 1990's. Mandarin was a language that no one in Taiwan spoke before 1945, and was forced upon the people. Suddenly, educated people were illiterate overnight.

Answer 3

Li ho, but we often say " Ni Hao. "

It means hello

We use "Hay in normal casual conversation.

"Hay" is very informal, kinda like "what's up" in English.

Answer 4

zhie hway (pernounce exactly how it looks like)

(P.S)-sry, i don't know what the real pinyin is and the character writing of it is :[

Answer 5

"lei hao" or universal "hello"

Answer 6

We say 你叫什么名字/Ni jiao shenme mingzi.