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🗣 Sie hongtex mxtadtid oah khitciah. 🗣 (u: Sie hoong'tex m'tat'tid oah khid'ciah.) 死皇帝毋值得活乞食。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

去世的皇帝 ， 比不上還活著的乞丐 。 勉勵人要珍惜生命 ， 窮苦活著總比富貴死去還要強 。

🗣 Sie zoaa oah bøefliw. 🗣 (u: Sie zoaa oah boea'liw. Sie zoaa oah bøea'liw.) 死蛇活尾溜。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

蛇被打死了 ， 尾巴還在蠕動 。 形容事情雖然已經結束 ， 但還留下一個殘局未收拾 。

🗣 bøehsie-bøeh'oah 🗣 (u: beq boeq'sie'beq boeq'oah bøeq'sie-bøeq'oah) 欲死欲活 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

死去活來 、 尋死覓活 。 形容非常痛苦或悲傷 ， 要死不要活的樣子 。

🗣 Chitgøeqpvoax ah'ar, m zay syoah. 🗣 (u: Chid'goeh'pvoax aq'ar, m zay sie'oah. Chid'gøeh'pvoax aq'ar, m zay sie'oah.) 七月半鴨仔，毋知死活。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

七月半的鴨子 ， 不知死活 。 七月半指農曆7月15日 ， 也就是 「 中元普渡 」， 為臺灣民間信仰祭拜孤魂野鬼的日子 。 民間信仰中雞是祭神的供品 ， 拜鬼只能用鴨子 ， 故有此說 。 形容人沒有憂患意識 ， 不知大難臨頭 。

🗣 kefsykefoah 🗣 (u: kea'sie'kea'oah) 假死假活 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

裝瘋賣傻 。 故意裝成痴呆瘋癲的樣子 。

🗣 sy'oah/syoah 🗣 (u: sie'oah) 死活 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

生與死 。

🗣 syze-oaqciah 🗣 (u: sie'ze-oah'ciah) 死坐活食 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

吃閒飯 。 比喻只消費而不事生產 。

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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.