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bok ie seeng ciw [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

the deed is done (Lit. The wood is already made into a boat.)

木已成舟

bong zuo seeng lioong [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

hope one's children will have a bright future

望子成龍

Id sitciog seeng chienkor-hin [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

A moment's error will bring about sorrow for a thousand years

一失足成千古恨

Itcioxng kofng seeng baxnkud kof [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

general achieves renown over the dead bodies of 10,000 soldiers -- The achievements of a general cost thousands of lives

一將功成萬骨枯。

kiwpve seeng liong'y [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

long illness makes one a good doctor ─ long experience makes a man skilful at what he never formally learned

久病成良醫

kofng seeng beeng ciu [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

achieve success and acquire fame; be successful and famous

功成名就

seeng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

fly; house fly

蠅

seeng jiin cy bie [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

help fulfill another's cherished hopes; assist others in achieving an objective

成人之美

seeng Serngthea [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

consecrate the Blessed Sacrament (Catholic)

成聖體

sibkoaxn seeng zuxjieen [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

Habit is second nature

習慣成自然

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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.