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Htb (cache) (4)

høfbae [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

good or bad

好歹

høflafmsaf cidtoxpar^† [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

He'll eat anything so he won't go hungry

好壞吃不會餓; 好歹搔一度飽

høfphvae [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

good or bad

好歹

høfphvaysu [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

death; birth; marriage and such ceremonies

喪喜事; 好歹事

DFT (3)

🗣 høfphvae 🗣 (u: hør'phvae) 好歹 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

好的與壞的 。 反正 、 無論如何 。

🗣 Høfphvae zai simlai, zhuietunphøee siøf khoafnthai./Høfphvae zai simlai, zhuietunphøee svaf khoafnthai. 🗣 (u: Hør'phvae zai sym'lai, zhuix'tuun'phoee siøf khoarn'thai. Hør'phvae zai sym'lai, zhuix'tuun'phøee siøf/svaf khoarn'thai.) 好歹在心內，喙脣皮相款待。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

不管好壞都放在心裡 ， 見面三分情 ， 口頭上還是要客客氣氣 ， 以禮相待 。

🗣 Svanii cidjun, høfphvae ciaoluun./Svaf nii cit jun, høfphvae ciaux luun. 🗣 (u: Svaf nii cit jun, hør'phvae ciaux luun.) 三年一閏，好歹照輪。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

三年一次閏月 ， 好壞輪流來 。 農曆每二 、 三年會有一個閏月 ， 多出來的這個月按曆法分派到不同月份 ， 所以說 「 好歹照輪 」。 這句話指風水輪流轉 ， 人生的際遇 ， 不會永遠順利 ， 也不會永遠困窘 。

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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.