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Htb (cache) (10)

chiwlai [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

in hand

手中; 手頭

chiwthaau [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

saving; hold; seize; grasp property or authority; have something one's command

手頭; 手中

chiwthaau tang [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

handle roughly; be extravagant in expenditure

手頭重

chiwthaau-aan [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

tight in money

手頭緊

chiwthaau-gvi [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

too much money in hand

手頭硬

chiwthaau-khyn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

手頭輕

cvii aan [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

hand up for cash

銀根緊; 手頭緊; 錢緊

khahlexngkhuix [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

living be better off

手頭鬆; 較鬆氣

kimgiin-svaf [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

Some times a person is short of money. (Lit. Money has three inconvenient times; when you haven't received it yet; when you don't have any; and when you have spent it all.)

金錢三不便; 手頭緊

pehpvii [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

barely to survive

手頭緊; 勉強拼湊

DFT (3)

🗣 chiwbin 🗣 (u: chiuo'bin) 手面 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

手掌 。 在盥洗時用來統稱手 、 臉 、 腳等部位 。 現金 。 手頭上現有的財物 。

🗣 chiwthaau 🗣 (u: chiuo'thaau) 手頭 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

指個人一時的經濟狀況 。 指正在掌握或正在進行的狀況 。 醫生在開立處方時所用藥劑的份量 。

🗣 phvax 🗣 (u: phvax) 冇^t [wt][mo] [h] (h,u) [d#]

1. (Adj) empty; hollow; spongy; not sturdy; flexible; not rigid; soft or runny (not set hard) 2. (Adj) extravagant; generous

鬆軟 。 結構不紮實 。 手頭闊綽 。

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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.