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chviwviaa si siaux [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

To the victor belong the spoils; Possession is nine points of the law; Possession is proof of ownership

搶贏算數

cidsyn si pve [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

be affected by several ailments or diseases

一身是病

cidsyn si zex [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

be deep in debt (said of individuals)

一身是債

guu khankhix kaux Pakkviaf iao si guu^† [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

unchangeable; remains the same; character is difficult to improve (Lit. If you lead a cow to Beijing; it is still a cow.)

牛牽到北京還是牛; 永遠改不掉壞習慣

hoethaau si gan [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

repent and salvation is at hand (turn the head and there is the shore)

回頭是岸

Iasof si siexnbok [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

Good Shepherd

耶穌是善牧

ili si too [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

interested only in material gain

唯利是圖

juhøo si hør? [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

What should I (we) do? What is the best way (of doing it)?

如何是好?

khao si sym huy [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

say one thing and mean another ─ hypocrisy; meaning contrary to what is spoken

口是心非

khof-si'ar [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

whistle

呼口哨; 吹口哨

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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.