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Htb (cache) (3)

bøkhafng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

have no money; stingy

無孔; 沒錢; 吝嗇; 不是辦法

bøkhafng bøsurn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

not important; of no consequence or significance

無孔無榫; 無關緊要的

bøkhafng-bøsurn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

is bored; no hole and tenon; useless

無孔無榫; 無聊

DFT (3)

🗣 bøkhafng 🗣 (u: bøo'khafng) 無空 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

無利可圖 、 沒有好處 。 沒道理 。 無意義 、 不合情理的 。

🗣 khybøkhafng 🗣 (u: khie'bøo'khafng) 起無空 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

挑釁 、 找碴 。 故意惹起爭端 。

🗣 uxkhafng-bøsurn 🗣 (u: u'khafng-bøo'surn) 有空無榫 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

器物接合的地方 ， 凸的部分叫 「 榫 」， 就是 「 榫頭 」， 凹陷的部分叫 「 空 」， 就是 「 榫眼 」。 有凹進去的榫眼 ， 卻沒有接合的榫頭 ， 用來比喻不合理 、 不著邊際或沒有結果的事情 。

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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.