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🗣 Laang teq zøx, thvy teq khvoax./Laang teq zøex, thvy teq khvoax. 🗣 (u: Laang teq zøx, thvy teq khvoax. Laang teq zøx/zøex, thvy teq khvoax.) 人咧做，天咧看。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

人在做 ， 天在看 。 做事情應憑著自己的良心 ， 不管好事壞事 ， 上天都在看著 。 比喻天理昭昭 ， 報應不爽 。

🗣 Bagciw hoe'hoef, puar khvoarzøx zhaekoef./Bagciw hoe'hoef, puar khvoarzøex zhaekoef. 🗣 (u: Bak'ciw hoef'hoef, puu'ar khvoax'zøx zhaix'koef. Bak'ciw hoef'hoef, puu'ar khvoax'zøx/zøex zhaix'koef.) 目睭花花，匏仔看做菜瓜。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

眼睛看不清楚 ， 瓠瓜看成絲瓜 。 嘲笑別人一時恍神 ， 把形狀相近的物品看成別的東西 。

🗣 Zørhix`ee bøeq soaq, khvoarhix`ee m soaq./Zøeahix`ee bøeq soaq, khvoarhix`ee m soaq. 🗣 (u: Zøx'hix`ee beq soaq, khvoax'hix`ee m soaq. Zøx/Zøex'hix`ee bøeq soaq, khvoax'hix`ee m soaq.) 做戲的欲煞，看戲的毋煞。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

演戲的想收場休息了 ， 台下的觀眾卻意猶未盡 、 不願離席 ， 希望戲班繼續演下去 。 比喻當事人都要收手和解了 ， 但旁觀者或看熱鬧的卻不願收場 。

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• (u) khvoax zøx = khuann3 tso3 [[DFT]] [[MK]] [[TC]] [[Lim19]] [[IT講]] [[CT]][CT]

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.