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Laang na soef, zexng puar svef zhaekoef./Laang na soef, zexng puar svy zhaekoef. 🗣 (u: Laang na soef, zexng puu'ar svef/svy zhaix'koef.) 人若衰，種匏仔生菜瓜。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

人若倒楣 ， 種匏瓜也會長出絲瓜 。 比喻人的運氣不佳 ， 老是事與願違 。

svihun-laang/sve'hun-laang/svi'hun-laang 🗣 (u: svef/svy'hun-laang) 生份人 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

陌生人 。 完全不認識的人 。

Toaxlaang svejit ciah baq, gyn'ar svejit ciah phaq./Toaxlaang svijit ciah baq, gyn'ar svijit ciah phaq. 🗣 (u: Toa'laang svef/svy'jit ciah baq, girn'ar svef/svy'jit ciah phaq.) 大人生日食肉，囡仔生日食拍。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

大人生日吃肉 ， 小孩生日挨打 。 孩子的生日是母親的受難日 ， 打孩子是提醒他母親受的苦難 。 小孩生日時常會藉機要求一些東西 ， 大人就用這句押韻的話 ， 戲謔地告訴孩子不能要求太多 。

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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.