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Gyn'aflaang u hvi bøo zhuix [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

A child should be seen and not heard

小孩子有耳無嘴; 囝仔人有耳無嘴

kox zhuix bøo kox syn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

care only about food; careless about one's dress (appearance)

只顧吃的; 不顧穿的

DFT (5)

Gyn'aflaang u hvi bøo zhuix. 🗣 (u: Girn'ar'laang u hvi bøo zhuix.) 囡仔人有耳無喙。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

斥責小孩子不要亂問大人的事 ， 就算聽見了也不可以亂傳 。

Siøme bøo kerng zhuix, siøphaq bøo kerng ui./Svama bøo kerng zhuix, svaphaq bøo kerng ui. 🗣 (u: Siøf/Svaf'me/ma bøo kerng zhuix, siøf/svaf'phaq bøo kerng ui.) 相罵無揀喙，相拍無揀位。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

比喻吵架 、 打架的殺傷力很大 。

Sym phvae bøo laang zay, zhuix phvae siong lixhai. 🗣 (u: Sym phvae bøo laang zay, zhuix phvae siong li'hai.) 心歹無人知，喙歹上厲害。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

告誡人要謹慎言行 。

U zhuix korng kaq bøo noa. 🗣 (u: U zhuix korng kaq bøo noa.) 有喙講甲無瀾。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

比喻費盡唇舌 。

uxhvi-bøzhuix 🗣 (u: u'hvi-bøo'zhuix) 有耳無喙 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

准聽不准說 。 是一種斥責小孩子在不當場合亂說話的說法 。

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Taiwanese Dictionaries – Sources

• HTB: "Hiexntai-buun" Dictionary (in Taiwanese Hokkien, English and Chinese). Modern Taiwanese Language Association.

• 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), and Maryknoll (2001).

• 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.