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🗣 Chiwkhiaw, khutjip bøo khutzhud. 🗣 (u: Chiuo'khiaw, khud'jip bøo khud'zhud.) 手曲，屈入無屈出。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

胳臂向內彎 ， 不會向外彎 。 比喻人都比較會袒護自己人 ， 不會幫外人 。 可用於表示袒護自己人是應該的 ， 也可用於譴責幫外人的人 。

🗣 Jip hor khao, bøo sie ia o'ao. 🗣 (u: Jip hor khao, bøo sie ia of'ao.) 入虎口，無死也烏漚。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

進入老虎的嘴裡 ， 沒死也體無完膚 、 半死不活 。 意謂掉入危險環境 ， 沒死也剩下半條命 。

🗣 Moelaang pør jip paang, bøo pør cidsielaang./Hmlaang pør jip paang, bøo pør cidsielaang. 🗣 (u: Moee/Hmm'laang pør jip paang, bøo pør cit'six'laang.) 媒人保入房，無保一世人。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

媒人只保證雙方完婚入洞房 ， 不能負責婚後雙方一輩子平順 。 說明他人的幫助或保證都是有限度的 ， 凡事還是得靠自己努力 。

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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.