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

wasted; without effect

乏味; 徒然; 無劇

tojieen [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

useless; meaningless; in vain; vainly; vainness

徒然

DFT (3)

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

可惜 。 徒然 、 枉然 。 浪費 。 沒有節制 、 無益的耗費 。

bythaang 🗣 (u: bie'thaang) 米蟲 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

蛀米的蟲 。 比喻不事生產 ， 徒然消耗米糧的人 。 比喻操作米價的糧商 。

peh 🗣 (u: peh) 白^p [wt][mo] [h] (h,u) [d#]

1. (N) white; color like snow or milk 2. (Adj) plain; clear; obvious; colloquial; vernacular 3. (Adj) flat; dull; tasteless; nothing added (i.e. white rice) 4. (N) secret language; codeword; lines (of an actor or performer) 5. (Adv) vainly; going to waste (one's energy etc)

顏色名 。 像雪或乳汁般素淨的顏色 。 淺顯的 、 口語的 。 平淡無味 、 不添加其他東西的 。 具有特殊性的話語 ， 如臺詞或隱語 。 徒然 、 白費 。

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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.