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Htb (cache) (4)

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to eat rice; to have a meal; dine

吃飯

ciaqpng tøh'ar [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

dining room table

吃飯桌仔; 餐桌

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depend on heaven for food ─ to leave everything to fate

靠天吃飯

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live by honest means

看天吃飯

DFT (5)

🗣 Ciaqpng hongtex toa. 🗣 (u: Ciah'png hoong'tex toa.) 食飯皇帝大。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

吃飯的時候跟皇帝一樣大 。 意為吃飯最重要 ， 不管什麼事都不得干擾 ， 等用餐完畢後 ， 再行處理 。

🗣 ciaqpng-thviaf 🗣 (u: ciah'png-thviaf) 食飯廳 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

飯廳 。 專供吃飯的廳堂 。

🗣 ciaqpng-tøq 🗣 (u: ciah'png-tøq) 食飯桌 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

飯桌 。 吃飯時所用的桌子 。

🗣 Tøhterng ciaqpng, tøhkhaf parngsae. 🗣 (u: Tøq'terng ciah'png, tøq'khaf paxng'sae.) 桌頂食飯，桌跤放屎。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

人家請你吃飯 ， 卻在桌底下排泄糞便 。 引申為受人恩惠而不知報答 ， 反而做出對不起恩人的事情 。

🗣 Zørkvoaf na zhengliaam, ciaqpng tiøh kiao iaam./Zøeakvoaf na zhengliaam, ciaqpng tiøh kiao iaam. 🗣 (u: Zøx'kvoaf na zhefng'liaam, ciah'png tiøh kiao iaam. Zøx/Zøex'kvoaf na zhefng'liaam, ciah'png tiøh kiao iaam.) 做官若清廉，食飯著攪鹽。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

當官若清廉 ， 吃飯得拌鹽 。 意為當官如果只靠基本官俸而不貪污 ， 生活就會過得清苦 ， 連吃飯都只能加點鹽巴下飯 。 表示清官無法過富裕奢華的生活 ； 又指清官難為或指無官不貪 。

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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.