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Htb (cache) (7)

chviar [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

and; to request

且; 請

chviar be khie [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

cannot afford to hire a teacher; cannot afford to invite a guest to a restaurant because of the expense

請不起

chviar be laai [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

unable to make someone come by invitation

請不來

chviar cidpvy [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

put aside temporarily

請一邊; 暫時放一邊

chviar isefng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

send for a doctor

請醫生

chviar`lie [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

please

請你

lie chviar [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

goodbye; so long

你請! 再見

DFT (3)

🗣 chviar 🗣 (u: chviar) 且 [wt][mo] [h] (h,u) [d#]

🗣 chviar 🗣 (u: chviar) 請^p [wt][mo] [h] (h,u) [d#]

1. (V) to invite 2. (V) to beg; to beseech; to entreat; to request sb to do sth 3. (V) to ask; to invite; please (do sth); to treat (to a meal etc); to request (customary usage is a type of polite expression)

邀約 。 懇求 、 拜託 。 一種表示客套的習慣性用法 。 招待 。

🗣 Svef`ee chviar cit pvy, iorng`ee unzeeng khaq toa thvy./Svy`ee chviar cit pvy, iorng`ee unzeeng khaq toa thvy. 🗣 (u: Svef/Svy`ee chviar cit pvy, iorng`ee wn'zeeng khaq toa thvy.) 生的請一邊，養的恩情較大天。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

親生的父母暫且擱在一邊 ， 養育者的恩情比天還高 。 提醒被撫養人不要抹煞養育人的苦心與功勞 ； 又指生身父母比養育者的地位還差一些 。

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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.