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Bøo bie u zengkhu, bøo kviar phø sinpu. 🗣 (u: Bøo bie u zefng'khu, bøo kviar phø syn'pu.) 無米有舂臼，無囝抱新婦。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

沒有米卻有搗米的臼 ； 沒有兒子領養一個童養媳 。 形容人只會做白日夢 ， 不切實際 。

Chi kviar bølun png, chi pexbuo sngx tngx. 🗣 (u: Chi kviar bøo'lun png, chi pe'buo sngx tngx.) 飼囝無論飯，飼爸母算頓。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

父母養育兒女 ， 不會去計較孩子的飯量 ， 兒女奉養父母時 ， 卻會計算父母吃了幾頓飯 。 這句話說明有些人養育子女和奉養父母時心態上的差異 ， 以及兄弟輪流奉養父母時常常斤斤計較的現象 。

U kviar u kviar mia, bøo kviar thvy zuotvia. 🗣 (u: U kviar u kviar mia, bøo kviar thvy zux'tvia.) 有囝有囝命，無囝天註定。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

有孩子是命運的安排 ， 沒孩子是天註定的 。 用來安慰膝下無子的人不要過於強求 。

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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.