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🗣 Bagciw khvoarkoaan, bøo khvoarke. 🗣 (u: Bak'ciw khvoax'koaan, bøo khvoax'ke.) 目睭看懸，無看低。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

眼睛長在頭頂上 ， 看上不看下 。 形容人走路不看路 。 引申為人勢利 ， 看不起身分較低的人 。

🗣 khvoarbøkhie 🗣 (u: khvoax'bøo'khie) 看無起 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

瞧不起 、 看扁 。

🗣 khvoarbøo 🗣 (u: khvoax'bøo) 看無 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

看不懂 。 看不到 。 看不起 。

🗣 khvoarlangbøo 🗣 (u: khvoax'laang'bøo) 看人無 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

瞧不起人 。

🗣 Toaxbak sinniuu bøo khvoarkvix zaux. 🗣 (u: Toa'bak syn'niuu bøo khvoax'kvix zaux.) 大目新娘無看見灶。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

大眼睛的新娘沒看到灶 。 通常用於揶揄人眼睛雖大 ， 但卻看不到顯而易見的物品 。

🗣 U viu khvoax viu, bøo viu ka'ki sviu. 🗣 (u: U viu khvoax viu, bøo viu kaf'ki sviu.) 有樣看樣，無樣家己想。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

有樣學樣 ， 沒樣自己想 。 意為有榜樣可學就依樣畫葫蘆 ， 否則就自己想辦法 ； 或指除了模仿他人 ， 也應自行創作 。

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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.