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be superior to

勝過; 較贏

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Khngx laang zøx hør tai, khah'viaa ciah zafzay./Khngx laang zøex hør tai, khah'viaa ciah zafzay. 🗣 (u: Khngx laang zøx hør tai, khaq viaa ciah zar'zay. 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#]

勸人為善勝過早上吃素 。 說明行善比獨善其身重要 。

Cit tao khaq viaa kao ciøh. 🗣 (u: Cit tao khaq viaa kao ciøh.) 一斗較贏九石。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

一斗的量雖比九石的量少 ， 但品質高 ， 勝過大量的劣質品 。 喻重質不重量 。

Ka'ki zay cit zaang, khaq viaa khvoax padlaang. 🗣 (u: Kaf'ki zay cit zaang, khaq viaa khvoax pat'laang.) 家己栽一欉，較贏看別人。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

自己栽種一棵果樹 ， 到時結果就有得吃 ， 勝過看別人的臉色 。 比喻凡事得靠自己 ， 不要靠別人 。 求人不如求己 。

Zaixsvef cit liap tau, khaq viaa syliao paix ti'thaau./Zaixsvy cit liap tau, khaq viaa syliao paix ti'thaau. 🗣 (u: Zai'svef/svy cit liap tau, khaq viaa sie'liao paix ty'thaau.) 在生一粒豆，較贏死了拜豬頭。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

父母健在的時候吃兒女孝敬的一顆豆子 ， 勝過去世後兒女才以豬頭來祭拜 。 提醒人行孝要及時 ； 又指死後子女以盛大喪禮祭拜 ， 雖是風光 ， 卻不如父母在生時略盡奉養之責 ， 只有生前奉養才是真的孝順 。 傳統禮俗 ， 父母去世時 ， 要準備豬頭做祭拜的大牲禮 。

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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.