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kerng^† [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

choose; select; pick out

揀; 景; 境; 襉

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Bøea zhaan aix kerng hør zhaan tøea, zhoaxbor aix kerng hør niulea. 🗣 (u: Bøea zhaan aix kerng hør zhaan tøea, zhoa'bor aix kerng hør niuu'lea.) 買田愛揀好田底，娶某愛揀好娘嬭。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

用來說明妻子家教的重要 。

kefngciah 🗣 (u: kerng'ciah) 揀食 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

挑食 、 偏食 。 形容人對食物挑剔或只偏好某些食物 。

kefngtee 🗣 (u: kerng'tee) 揀茶 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

篩選茶葉 。 在一堆烘焙過的茶葉中 ， 挑選並加以分級 ， 並剔除雜屑的工作 ， 現在多為老婦人的副業 。

kefngzhaix 🗣 (u: kerng'zhaix) 揀菜 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

挑菜 。 把蔬菜不好的 、 不能吃的地方去掉 。

kerng 🗣 (u: kerng) 揀^p [wt][mo] [h] (h,u) [d#]

1. (V) to choose; to pick; to select

挑 、 選 。

Kerng`aq kerng, kefngtiøh cit ee bøe lenggerng. 🗣 (u: Kerng`aq kerng, kerng'tiøh cit ee bøe leeng'gerng.) 揀啊揀，揀著一个賣龍眼。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

用來勸人不要過份挑剔 ， 以免最後找到一個最壞的 。

Siøme bøo kerng zhuix, siøphaq bøo kerng ui./Svama bøo kerng zhuix, svaphaq bøo kerng ui. 🗣 (u: Siøf/Svaf'me/ma bøo kerng zhuix, siøf/svaf'phaq bøo kerng ui.) 相罵無揀喙，相拍無揀位。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

比喻吵架 、 打架的殺傷力很大 。

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Taiwanese Dictionaries – Sources

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

• 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), and Maryknoll (2001).

• 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.