Pe̍h-ōe-jī

Pe̍h-ōe-jī (Chinese: 白话字/白話字, abbreviated POJ, literally vernacular writing, also known as Church Romanisation) is an orthography used to write variants of Southern Min Chinese, particularly Taiwanese Hokkien and Amoy Hokkien. Developed by Western missionaries working among the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia in the 19th century and refined by missionaries working in Xiamen and Tainan, it uses a modified Latin alphabet and some diacritics to represent the spoken language. After initial success in Fujian, POJ became most widespread in Taiwan and, in the mid-20th century, there were over 100,000 people literate in POJ. A large amount of printed material, religious and secular, has been produced in the script, including Taiwan's first newspaper, the Taiwan Church News.

Differences with Taiwanese Romanisation System
The Taiwanese Romanisation System, has differences

from POJ, which it is based on, namely:


 * using ts and tsh instead of ch and chh.
 * using u instead of o in vowel combinations such as oa and oe.
 * using i instead of e in eng and ek.
 * using oo instead of o͘.
 * using nn instead of ⁿ.