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Htb (cache) (4)

ciøh tiim toaxhae [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

completely without information or response; no news at all; without a trace (Lit. rocks falling into the sea)

石沉大海

høfciuo tiim arngtea [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

keep the best till the last; The best is not always in front. The late comer ends up in front

好酒沉甕底; 好的在後頭

tiim [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

sink; be drawn deep into; submerge; perish; deeply

沉

tiim`løqkhix [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

sink; swag; subsidency; gravitate; sink into water

沈下去

DFT (4)

Høfciuo tiim arngtøea. 🗣 (u: Hør'ciuo tiim axng'tea. Hør'ciuo tiim axng'tøea.) 好酒沉甕底。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

好酒會沉到酒甕的底部 ， 愈陳愈香 。 比喻好的 、 精彩的事物 ， 總是留在最後面才出現 。

Løh zuie pvepvee tiim, zoaan bøo taxngthaukhyn./Løh zuie pvipvii tiim, zoaan bøo taxngthaukhyn. 🗣 (u: Løh zuie pvee/pvii'pvee/pvii tiim, zoaan bøo tang'thaau'khyn.) 落水平平沉，全無重頭輕。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

一旦落入水中 ， 同樣都會往下沉 ， 沒有輕重的差別 。 說明大難來時大家的命運相同 ， 沒有任何差別 。

phu'tiim 🗣 (u: phuu'tiim) 浮沉 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

隨波逐流 ， 漫無目的 。 浮標 。 釣魚時用來分辨魚兒上鉤與否的小工具 ， 多成紡錘狀 ， 可浮於水上 。

tiim 🗣 (u: tiim) 沉^b [wt][mo] [h] (h,u) [d#]

1. (V) to sink; to submerge 2. (V) to settle; to precipitate (solid sediment out of a solution) 3. (Adj) (of a color) dark; deep; rich 4. (Adj) (child) heavy (used instead of tang 重 by adult worried the child will not grow properly)

往下落入水中 。 沉澱 、 沉積 。 形容顏色深 。 大人擔心小孩子會養不大 ， 所以避諱用 「 重 」， 改用 「 沉 」。

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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.