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Bøea zhaan aix kerng hør zhaan tøea, zhoaxbor aix kerng hør niulea. 🗣 (u: Bea zhaan aix kerng hør zhaan tea, zhoa'bor aix kerng hør niuu'lea. Bøea zhaan aix kerng hør zhaan tøea, zhoa'bor aix kerng hør niuu'lea.) 買田愛揀好田底，娶某愛揀好娘嬭。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

買田地 ， 要慎選土質好的田地 ； 娶老婆 ， 要先觀察女方母親之行為舉止 。 意即有其母必有其女 ， 用來說明選妻子時對方家教的重要 。

Høfciuo tiim arngtøea. 🗣 (u: Hør'ciuo tiim axng'tea. Hør'ciuo tiim axng'tøea.) 好酒沉甕底。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

好酒會沉到酒甕的底部 ， 愈陳愈香 。 比喻好的 、 精彩的事物 ， 總是留在最後面才出現 。

Iuosiux khaf, høfmia tøea. 🗣 (u: Iux'siux khaf, hør'mia tea. Iux'siux khaf, hør'mia tøea.) 幼秀跤，好命底。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

腳纖細的人命比較好 。 古時候有錢人家的女兒 ， 有婢女 、 傭人服侍 ， 不須參與農忙勞務 ， 因此手腳纖細 、 秀氣好看 ， 進而產生 「 幼秀跤 」 的女性為富貴人家的刻板印象 。

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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.