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kuie [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

cunning; malicious; to cheat

詭

kuie huxsyn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

possessed by demons

鬼附身

kuie'oaan [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

longan; dried longan

桂圓

kvoar kuie [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

to expel the ghosts

趕鬼

mxzay thvite kuie kyn tang [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

He doesn't know how heavy the heavens and earth are. ─ He doesn't know anything

不知天高地厚

siin zhud kuie but [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

appear and disappear quite unpredictably like gods and demons

神出鬼沒

tiaotau-kuie [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

yn kuie jip theh [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

invite ghosts into one's home -- employ a person who afterwards proves very injurious

引狼入室

DFT (46) thaau-10-zoa:

🗣 kuie 🗣 (u: kuie) 軌 [wt][mo] [h] (h,u) [d#]

🗣 kuie 🗣 (u: kuie) 幾^p [wt][mo] [h] (h,u) [d#]

1. (Qw) How many? How much? which (month)? 2. (Adj) indefinite number of; slightly more than; a few; a little or somewhat (only used in combination)

詢問數量的多少 。 表示不定的數目 。

🗣 kuie 🗣 (u: kuie) 癸 [wt][mo] [h] (h,u) [d#]

1. (N) tenth of the ten Heavenly Stems

天干的第十位 ， 也是末位 。

🗣 kuie 🗣 (u: kuie) 鬼 [wt][mo] [h] (h,u) [d#]

1. (N) ghost of deceased person 2. (Adj) crafty; cunning; sly; treacherous; devious

人死後的靈魂 。 形容人狡猾 、 奸詐 。

🗣 kuie 🗣 (u: kuie) 詭^p [wt][mo] [h] (h,u) [d#]

🗣 kuie kafng 🗣 (u: kuie kafng) 幾工 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

幾天 。 常用於疑問句 。

🗣 Laang khafn m kviaa, kuie khafn liuoliuokviaa. 🗣 (u: Laang khafn m kviaa, kuie khafn liux'liux'kviaa.) 人牽毋行，鬼牽溜溜行。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

對於好人的指引置之不理 ， 反而在壞人的引誘下亦步亦趨 。 形容人是非不分 ， 正事不做 ， 偏要做壞事 。

🗣 lahsab-kuie 🗣 (u: laq'sab-kuie) 垃圾鬼 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

罵人骯髒或下流的用語 。 不衛生 。

🗣 Lai siin thofng goa kuie. 🗣 (u: Lai siin thofng goa kuie.) 內神通外鬼。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

指內部人員串通外面的人 ， 做出不利內部的事 。

🗣 mokuie/mo'kuie 🗣 (u: moo'kuie) 魔鬼 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

迷惑人 、 陷害人的妖魔鬼怪 。

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• (u) kuie kuie = "kui2 kui2" [[DFT]] [[MK]] [[TC]] [[Lim19]] [[IT講]] [[CT]][CT]

Taiwanese Dictionaries – Sources

• HTB: "Hiexntai-buun" Dictionary (in Taiwanese Hokkien, English and Chinese). Modern Taiwanese Language Association. Syllable segmentation in progress.

• DFT: 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Taiwanese Hokkien and Chinese). Ministry of Education, R.O.C. 2011. (CC BY-ND 3.0 臺灣) (data from MoeDict Desktop For MacOSX / Linux / Windows. 2015. see MoeDict and Taioaan Wiki). We have annotated over 5800 definitions in English for monosyllables (enter any monosyllable to get into monosyllable mode)

• MK: Taiwanese—English Dictionary (in Taiwanese Hokkien, English and Chinese). Maryknoll Language Service Center, Taichung, Taiwan. 2001 [1976]. (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 TW)

• TC/TH: Iûⁿ Ún-giân. 台語文/中文辭典 Taiwanese — Chinese Dictionary & 台文/華文線頂辭典 [Taihoa Online Dictionary] (in Taiwanese Hokkien and Chinese).

• EDUTECH: Liim Keahioong (2001-2003). EDUTECH: Taiwanese—English Dictionary Searched with Concise Atonal Spelling. Edited and cross-referenced to EDUTECH General Taiwanese Words (正確台語拼字辭和漢字辭), Embree (1973), Maryknoll (2001), and other dictionaries.

• Embree: Embree, Bernard L. M. (1973). A Dictionary of Southern Min: based on current usage in Taiwan and checked against the earlier works of Carstairs Douglas, Thomas Barclay, and Ernest Tipson. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Language Institute. (OCLC 2491446. Data from GitHub - ChhoeTaigiDatabase. See NY Times article)

• Lim19: 台語辭典(台日大辭典台語譯本)查詢 [Taiwanese Dictionary (translation of Tai—Nichi Dai Jiten) search] (in Taiwanese Hokkien). Sìn Bōng Ài [Faith Hope Love]. 2019. (Lim08 data: GitHub - Lim-Chun-iok_2008_Tai-jip-Tua-su-tian)

• TDJ: Ogawa Naoyoshi, ed. (1931, 1932). 臺日大辭典 Tai—Nichi Dai Jiten [Taiwanese—Japanese Dictionary] (in Taiwanese Hokkien and Japanese). Volume 1 & Volume 2. Taihoku: Governor-General of Taiwan.