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好吃

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ciah høfliau 🗣 (u: ciah hør'liau) 食好料 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

吃大餐 、 享受美食 。

Ciah hør taux siøpøx./Ciah hør taux svapøx. 🗣 (u: Ciah hør taux siøf/svaf'pøx.) 食好鬥相報。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

口耳相傳 ， 有口皆碑 。

Ciah køef, øe khykef; ciah jiu'hii, svef gyn'ar hør iøchi./Ciah køef, øe khykef; ciah jiu'hii, svy gyn'ar hør iøchi. 🗣 (u: Ciah køef, øe khie'kef; ciah jiuu'hii, svef/svy girn'ar hør iøf'chi.) 食雞，會起家；食鰇魚，生囡仔好育飼。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

借諧音的吉祥話 ， 說出心中的願望 。

høfciaqkhuxn 🗣 (u: hør'ciah'khuxn) 好食睏 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

吃得下睡得香 ， 過好日子 。 常引申指稱心如意 。

Høfgiah mxtadtiøh øe ciah, hør mia mxtadtiøh iofngkvia. 🗣 (u: Hør'giah m'tat'tiøh øe ciah, hør mia m'tat'tiøh iorng'kvia.) 好額毋值著會食，好命毋值著勇健。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

比喻身體健康比起財富身家都還更重要 。

Khitciah ia u svaf nii høfun. 🗣 (u: Khid'ciah ia u svaf nii hør'un.) 乞食也有三年好運。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

比喻風水輪流轉 。

Khngx laang zøx hør tai, khah'viaa ciah zafzay./Khngx laang zøex hør tai, khah'viaa ciah zafzay. 🗣 (u: Khngx laang zøx/zøex hør tai, khaq'viaa ciah zar'zay.) 勸人做好代，較贏食早齋。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

強調積功德要重實質而輕形式 。 也有諷刺嘴巴吃齋卻心無善念的人的意思 。

Oay zhuix køef ciah hør bie. 🗣 (u: Oay zhuix køef ciah hør bie.) 歪喙雞食好米。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

比喻人有不符自己身份或能力的過度欲望 。

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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.