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cioong thiefn jii kaxng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

descend from heaven (literally) very unexpectedly; deus ex machina

從天而降

e cioong thiefn kaxng^† [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

an unexpected disaster (Lit. A calamity descended from the sky.)

禍從天降

giorng putkhuix thiefn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

feel no shame before God

仰不愧天

haux kafmtong thiefn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

filial piety can move Heaven

孝感動天

hø cioong thiefn kaxng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

unexpected disaster (calamity descended from the sky)

禍從天降

iuu thiefn jii kaxng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

come down from heaven

由天而降

iuu thiefn put'iuu jiin [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

it depends on Heaven not on man

由天不由人

jinteng sexng thiefn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

Man's determination will conquer Nature.; Human effort will overcome destiny (difficulties)

人定勝天

jit kiuo thiefn tioong [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

for a long; long time

日久天長

kyjiin iw thiefn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

used to express baseless anxiety; pessimistic fears (The man of Ch'i feared that the sky was about to fall; like Chicken Little)

杞人憂天

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Taiwanese Dictionaries – Sources

• HTB: "Hiexntai-buun" Dictionary (in Taiwanese Hokkien, English and Chinese). Modern Taiwanese Language Association.

• 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), and Maryknoll (2001).

• 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.