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beeng zexng gieen sun [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

valid in name and in reasoning; have good reason; deserve; justified

名正言順

gieen [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

speech or word; words to say

言

gieen jii iuo sixn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

be as good as one's word

言而有信

gieen køx kii sit [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

exaggerate; to boast or brag

言過其實

gieen kuy uu hør [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

resume friendship; be on good terms again; reconciliate; be reconciled

言歸於好

gieen kuy zerngtoan [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

Let's resume the narration Let's go back to the main topic

言歸正傳

gieen tøf pid sid [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

One is bound to make a slip of the lip if he talks too much

言多必失

gieen zhud juu safn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

A promise is a promise

言出如山

gieen zhud pid heeng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

He's as good as his word. If you promised; do it

言出必行

iuthiofng-cy-gieen [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

words uttered in sincerity

由衷之言

DFT (4)

gieen 🗣 (u: gieen) 言 [wt][mo] [h] (h,u) [d#]

1. (N) words; speech; utterance; discourse; spoken words; spoken language 2. (N) letter; symbol; character; word

話語 ， 所說的話 。 字 。

oarn'gieen 🗣 (u: oaxn'gieen) 怨言 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

1. () (CE) complaint

soangieen/soan'gieen 🗣 (u: soafn'gieen) 宣言 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

政府 、 政黨 、 其他團體或個人 ， 用文書宣示對某件事的主張 ， 稱為 「 宣言 」。

thoan'gieen 🗣 (u: thoaan'gieen) 傳言 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

1. () (CE) rumor; hearsay

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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.