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chiøx piin bøo chiøx chiofng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

look down on the poor and look up to the rich no matter where their money come from

笑貧不笑娼

kaf piin juu siern [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

be in extreme poverty

家貧如洗

piin [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

to hold; poor; to lean on; repeatedly; poverty; poor; destitute; impoverished; deficiency; deficient; lack

屏; 貧; 憑; 頻

piin hokkhix [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

trusting to his own good luck

憑福氣

piin liongsym [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

as one's conscience dictates; fair in dealing

憑良心

piin pwnsu [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

by virtue of sheer competence; talent (as distinct from pure luck or chance)

憑本事

piin symmih? [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

on what basis; why; on what grounds?

憑甚麼?

siwkhao juu piin [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

Lit. keep the mouth closed like a bottle ─ refuse to talk

守口如瓶

ybut uii piin^† [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

take something as a pledge or proof

以物為憑

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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.