The vocabulary of Teochew shares a lot of similarities with Cantonese because of their continuous contact with each other.
Teochew and other Southern Min varieties, such as Taiwanese Hokkien, preserve a good deal of Old Chinese vocabularyour, such as [mak] eye (, Taiwanese Hokkien: 目 ba̍k), [ta] dry (, Taiwanese Hokkien: 焦 ta), and [kʰəŋ] hide (cf.