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jiin lør sym putlør [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

young at heart; man may be old in years; but his heart need not be old; An old man chasing young women

人老心不老

khaux jiin sym hieen [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

very touching (said of music; writing)

扣人心弦

DFT (4)

Ciah tiøh iøh, zhvezhao cit hiøh; ciah mxtiøh iøh, jinsym cit ciøh./Ciah tiøh iøh, chvizhao cit hiøh; ciah mxtiøh iøh, jinsym cit ciøh. 🗣 (u: Ciah tiøh iøh, zhvef/chvy'zhao cit hiøh; ciah m'tiøh iøh, jiin'sym cit ciøh.) 食著藥，青草一葉；食毋著藥，人參一石。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

吃對藥 ， 一葉的藥草就能見效 ； 吃錯藥 ， 吃再多高價珍貴的人參也無效 。 比喻做事要能切中要點 、 掌握關鍵 ， 才不會徒勞無功 ， 而能有事半功倍之效 。

jinsofm/jinsym 🗣 (u: jiin'sym) 人參 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

草本植物 。 根和葉都可以做藥 ， 是昂貴的中藥材 。 因為形狀像人 ， 所以稱為 「 人參 」。

jinsym 🗣 (u: jiin'sym) 人心 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

1. () (CE) popular feeling; the will of the people

Ua hor ua phii lan ua kud, ty jiin ty bin pud tisym. 🗣 (u: Ua hor ua phii lan ua kud, ty jiin ty bin pud ty'sym.) 畫虎畫皮無畫骨，知人知面不知心。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

人只能畫出老虎外表的皮相 ， 卻無法畫出老虎內在的骨相 ， 光憑外表 ， 無法真實了解人內心的想法 。 比喻人心難測 。

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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.