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🗣 Jinzeeng laau cit svoax, jidau hør siøkhvoax./Jinzeeng laau cit svoax, jidau hør svakhvoax. 🗣 (u: Jiin'zeeng laau cit svoax, jit'au hør siøf/svaf'khvoax.) 人情留一線，日後好相看。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

對別人留個情面 ， 以後見面才好相處 。 意謂與人為善 ， 凡事多留餘地 ， 未來相處才不至於難堪 。

🗣 phvaybin-siøkhvoax/phvaybin-svakhvoax 🗣 (u: phvae'bin-siøf/svaf'khvoax) 歹面相看 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

惡臉相向 。

🗣 Khia koaan svoaf, khvoax bea siøthad./Khia koaan svoaf, khvoax bea svathad. 🗣 (u: Khia koaan svoaf, khvoax bea siøf/svaf'thad.) 徛懸山，看馬相踢。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

站在高岡上 ， 看著山腳下的馬互踢 。 比喻置身事外 ， 袖手旁觀 ， 有幸災樂禍看好戲之意 。

🗣 Khvoax laang ciah baq, mxthafng khvoax laang siøphaq./Khvoax laang ciah baq, mxthafng khvoax laang svaphaq. 🗣 (u: Khvoax laang ciah baq, m'thafng khvoax laang siøf/svaf'phaq.) 看人食肉，毋通看人相拍。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

寧可看人吃肉 ， 也不要看人打架 。 誡人遠離是非之地 ， 以免遭受池魚之殃 。

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• (u) siøf khvoax = sio1-khuann3 [[DFT]] [[MK]] [[TC]] [[Lim19]] [[IT講]] [[CT]][CT]

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.