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Htb (cache) (5)

zhaa [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

investigate; to check; seek out; look into

查; 柴

zhaa hoxkhao [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

make checks from house to house (said of police or census officials)

查戶口

zhaa jixtiern^† [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

look up in a dictionary

查字典

zhaa kheg`ee^† [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

wood carving; carved of wood

柴刻的; 木彫的

zhaa-bøe zhud`laai^† [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

cannot find out a fact; cannot check out a figure

查不出來

DFT (5)

Kin svoaf zhøx bøo zhaa, kin khøef tvaf bøo zuie./Kun svoaf zhøx bøo zhaa, kun khøef tvaf bøo zuie. 🗣 (u: Kin svoaf zhøx bøo zhaa, kin khef tvaf bøo zuie. Kin/Kun svoaf zhøx bøo zhaa, kin/kun khøef tvaf bøo zuie.) 近山剉無柴，近溪擔無水。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

靠近山卻砍不到柴 ， 靠近溪邊卻挑不到水 。 反諷人往往捨近求遠 ， 忽略了身邊隨手可得的資源 ， 去追求遙不可及的事物 。 或指人往往輕忽有把握的事 ， 反而坐失良機 ， 以致失敗 。

phoarzhaa/phoax zhaa 🗣 (u: phoax zhaa) 破柴 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

把木頭劈開 。

Zhaa 🗣 (u: Zhaa) 柴 [wt][mo] [h] (h,u) [d#]

附錄 － 百家姓

zhaa 🗣 (u: zhaa) 查 [wt][mo] [h] (h,u) [d#]

1. (V) to inspect; to observe and study; to examine; to investigate 2. (V) to leaf through; to scan; to thumb through; to flip through; to look up (e.g. a word in a dictionary)

考察 、 檢視 。 翻閱 、 檢尋 。

zhaa 🗣 (u: zhaa) 柴 [wt][mo] [h] (h,u) [d#]

1. (N) log (of wood, timber etc); wood; firewood 2. (Adj) slow and inarticulate; dull. usually reduplicated

泛指木頭 、 木材 。 形容人的肢體動作呆滯 、 不靈活 。 口語運用大多以重疊的形式出現 。

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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.