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Htb (cache) (2)

thaxn kati ciah [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

earn just enough for one's own food; having nothing to spare for any one else

賺自己吃

thaxn-bøo ciah [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

not making a living; not making ends meet

無法謀生

DFT (6)

🗣 Thaxn ia tiøh thaxn, ciah ia tiøh ciah. 🗣 (u: Thaxn ia tiøh thaxn, ciah ia tiøh ciah.) 趁也著趁，食也著食。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

錢也得賺 ， 飯也得吃 。 勸人不要只會賺錢 ， 也要懂得花錢吃飯 ， 照顧身體 。

🗣 chiwbixntharnciah 🗣 (u: chiuo'bin'thaxn'ciah) 手面趁食 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

討生活 。 指靠勞力維生 。 引申指微薄的所得 ， 僅僅夠用來糊口 。

🗣 tharnciah 🗣 (u: thaxn'ciah) 趁食 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

討生活 。 賺錢過活 ， 比喻營生 。 指妓女賣淫為生 。

🗣 tharnciah-kefng 🗣 (u: thaxn'ciah-kefng) 趁食間 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

妓女戶 。

🗣 tharnciah-za'bor 🗣 (u: thaxn'ciah-zaf'bor) 趁食查某 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

妓女 、 應召女郎 。 以賣淫為生的女人 。

🗣 tharnciaqlaang 🗣 (u: thaxn'ciah'laang) 趁食人 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

靠辛苦賺錢維持家計的人 。

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External Dictionaries in Conventional Romanizations *

• (u) thaxn ciah = than3 tsiah8 [[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.