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kaylioong^† [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

improve; reform; improvement; to reform; make better

改良

thøciaplie [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

graft a plum on a peach

桃接李; 改良的李子

DFT (3)

🗣 hofthaukafm 🗣 (u: hor'thaau-kafm) 虎頭柑 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

瓜果類 。 以柚子或桔子的母株當枮木 ， 再嫁接上柑橘 ， 一株僅可產數十顆 ， 體型大 ， 圓周約有五 、 六十公分 。 以前的虎頭柑因為既酸又澀 ， 多半在年節拜拜的時候做觀賞用 ， 就是 「 金玉其外 ， 敗絮其中 」 的情況 。 改良過後的虎頭柑 ， 則香甜多汁 ， 產量也大為增加 。

🗣 kaylioong 🗣 (u: kae'lioong) 改良 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

改善 、 改進 。 把原本不好的地方加以改進 ， 使它變好 。

🗣 zaixlaai-bie 🗣 (u: zai'laai-bie) 在來米 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

臺灣稻米類型之一 。 屬於秈稻型的稻米 。 臺灣早期由中國大陸引入秈稻品種 ， 日治時代由日本人引進粳稻品種 。 為了區別起見 ， 改良後的秈稻品種稱作 「 在來米 」； 改良後的粳稻品種則稱作 「 蓬萊米 」( hông - lâi - bí )。

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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.