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Htb (cache) (4)

auxpiahsvoaf [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

background; said of powerful influence assisting a man

後壁山; 後背景; 靠山; 後盾

auxpiahsvoaf kia [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

said of a person with strong backing or powerful connections

後壁山在; 靠山大

auxsvoaf [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

rear mountain; east coast of Taiwan; financial or social backing

後山; 靠山

khørsvoaf [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

a patron; a supporter; a tower of strength

靠山

DFT (3)

🗣 auxpiahsvoaf 🗣 (u: au'piaq'svoaf) 後壁山 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

後山 。 靠山 、 後臺 。

🗣 khørsvoaf 🗣 (u: khøx'svoaf) 靠山 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

靠近山邊 、 住在山邊 。 指人事上的後盾 、 後援 。

🗣 Khøx svoaf svoaf øe pafng, khøx zuie zuie øe taf. 🗣 (u: Khøx svoaf svoaf e pafng, khøx zuie zuie e taf. Khøx svoaf svoaf øe pafng, khøx zuie zuie øe taf.) 靠山山會崩，靠水水會焦。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

依靠山 ， 山會有崩塌的時候 ； 依靠河流 ， 河流會有乾涸的時候 。 比喻無論有多穩當的後臺或再多的財產 ， 總有失勢的一天 ， 勸人凡事要自立自強 ， 不可太依賴別人 。

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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.