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Gong`ee ia u cit hang øe. 🗣 (u: Gong`ee ia u cit hang e. Gong`ee ia u cit hang øe.) 戇的也有一項會。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

笨的人也有一項他會的才能 。 比喻天生我才必有用 。

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#]

乞丐也有三年的好運 。 說明人不會一生都是落魄的 ， 勉勵人毋須因一時的挫折 、 低潮而灰心喪志 ， 即使潦倒如乞丐 ， 也會有運氣好轉的時候 。 比喻風水輪流轉 。

Køef sae løh thoo, ia u svaf zhuxn iefn. 🗣 (u: Kef sae løh thoo, ia u svaf zhuxn iefn. Køef sae løh thoo, ia u svaf zhuxn iefn.) 雞屎落塗，也有三寸煙。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

雞屎落地 ， 也有三寸煙 。 意為即便是微小不堪的雞屎 ， 剛剛掉落地上時也會揚起一陣熱熱的煙氣 ， 何況是做人 ， 更要有志氣 。

Køenng badbat ia u phang. 🗣 (u: Kef'nng bat'bat ia u phang. Køef'nng bat'bat ia u phang.) 雞卵密密也有縫。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

雞蛋的蛋殼再怎麼密合也有縫隙 。 比喻事情總會有破綻 ， 不可能天衣無縫 。

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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.