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ciegoan-kwn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

army made up of volunteers

志願軍

kirm'oe-kwn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

kirm'ui-kwn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

imperial guards

禁慰軍

kiuosex-kwn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

Salvation Army

救世軍

kwn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

catty; 600 gm; one and one-third pound

斤

kwn`laang [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

follow a person (to do something)

跟人

zhuiekhie-kwn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

嘴齒根

DFT (96) thaau-10-zoa:

a'kwn 🗣 (u: af'kwn) 亞軍 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

1. () (CE) second place (in a sports contest); runner-up

亞軍

Ciah laang cidkyn, iaxtiøh heeng laang 4-niuo./Ciah laang cit kyn, ia tiøh heeng laang six niuo./Ciah laang cit kwn, ia tiøh heeng laang six niuo. 🗣 (u: Ciah laang cit kyn/kwn, ia tiøh heeng laang six niuo.) 食人一斤，也著還人四兩。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

吃了他人一斤的糧食 ， 最少得還人家四兩 。 指受人恩惠 ， 縱然自己很困苦 ， 多少總要擠一點出來報答別人 。 比喻知恩圖報 。 進一步引申 ， 告誡世人不要隨便收受他人饋贈 ， 拿人家的都要奉還 ， 天下沒有白吃的午餐 。

khakwn/kha'kyn/kha'kwn 🗣 (u: khaf'kyn/kwn) 跤筋 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

腳後的筋 。

kwn 🗣 (u: kwn) 軍 [wt][mo] [h] (h,u) [d#]

1. (N) army; troops; military; forces 2. (N) soldier; small role; utility man; general handyman

指軍隊 。 兵丁或指跑龍套的 。

kwn 🗣 (u: kwn) 鈞 [wt][mo] [h] (h,u) [d#]

Kwn/kwn 🗣 (u: kwn) 君 [wt][mo] [h] (h,u) [d#]

1. (N) emperor; sovereign king; monarch 2. (N) honorific: sir; exalted; honorable. mostly for male 3. () honorific: husband 4. (V) in Chinese chess, to attack the opposing king or marshal

皇帝 、 君王 。 一國之主 。 對人的一種尊稱 ， 多數指男性 。 對丈夫的尊稱 。 下象棋時 ， 攻擊對方的將 、 帥 。

kwn/kyn 🗣 (u: kyn/kwn) 根 [wt][mo] [h] (h,u) [d#]

1. (N) roots of trees and plants; source (of information etc); origin

植物的根部 ， 也引申表示事情的根本 、 來源 。

kwn/kyn 🗣 (u: kyn/kwn) 筋 [wt][mo] [h] (h,u) [d#]

1. (N) tendon; sinew

骨頭和肌肉之間的韌帶 。

kyn/kwn 🗣 (u: kyn/kwn) 巾 [wt][mo] [h] (h,u) [d#]

1. (N) square or rectangular general purpose cloth; handkerchief; towel; napkin

可擦拭 、 披用 、 包蓋的方型或長方型的布 ， 都可以說是巾 。

kyn/kwn 🗣 (u: kyn/kwn) 均 [wt][mo] [h] (h,u) [d#]

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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.