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Bøe tee korng tee phafng, bøe hoef korng hoef aang. 🗣 (u: Bøe tee korng tee phafng, bøe hoef korng hoef aang.) 賣茶講茶芳，賣花講花紅。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

賣茶葉的人強調自己賣的茶葉有多香 ； 賣花的人強調自己賣的花顏色有多麼的鮮豔 。 比喻為了要把自己的產品推銷出去 ， 生意人總會強調其產品具有什麼特色 ， 藉此吸引顧客的目光 。 比喻老王賣瓜 ， 自賣自誇 。

Hoef bøo paq jit aang, laang bøo chiefn jit hør. 🗣 (u: Hoef bøo paq jit aang, laang bøo chiefn jit hør.) 花無百日紅，人無千日好。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

花不會延續百日的鮮紅 ， 人不會維持千日的順遂 。 花開得美 ， 總會有凋謝的時候 ， 人生際遇也不會永遠處於順境 。 比喻人生是起起伏伏的 ， 本來就無法永遠順利 。

Toaxanghoef m zay bae, vi'afhoef bae m zay. 🗣 (u: Toa'aang'hoef m zay bae, vii'ar'hoef bae m zay.) 大紅花毋知䆀，圓仔花䆀毋知。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

朱槿不知自己醜 ， 千日紅醜不自知 。 嘲諷人沒有察覺自己醜陋 ， 還四處炫耀 。 比喻不知藏拙或不知羞恥 。

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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.