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Htb (cache) (4)

bøzhaykafng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

futile; not valid; ineffective; in vain; waste of effort; in vain; wasted effort

白費工夫; 無彩工; 徒勞

khangløo [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

futile efforts

空勞; 徒勞

toløo bueg^† [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

toil in vain

徒勞無益

toløo bukofng^† [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

work without achieving anything; to labor without success; vain efforts

徒勞無功

DFT (3)

🗣 bøzhaykafng 🗣 (u: bøo'zhae'kafng) 無彩工 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

徒勞無功 、 白費工夫 、 枉費工夫 。

🗣 khafng 🗣 (u: khafng) 空^p [wt][mo] [h] (h,u) [d#]

1. (N) small crack; hole 2. (N) gain; profit; benefit 3. (N) pitfall; snare; trap 4. (Adj) hollow; empty 5. (Adj) unrealistic; impractical; false 6. (Adv) used up; wholely; completely; entirely 7. (Adv) in vain; all for nothing

縫隙 、 孔洞 。 引申為好處 、 賺頭 、 利益 。 引申為花樣 、 陷阱 。 沒有東西 。 虛無的 、 不切實際 。 光 、 完 、 盡 。 白白地 、 徒勞無功 。

🗣 oan'orng 🗣 (u: oafn'orng) 冤枉 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

冤屈 。 受到誤會 、 不公平或不合理的待遇 。 徒勞無功 。 形容無實質效益 、 白白浪費 。

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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.