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cit'hii tiøx toaxtai [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

use a minnow to catch a whopper use a little bait to catch a big fish

鯽魚釣鯉魚; 以小釣大; 以少誘多

DFT (5)

Cid khøef bøo hii, pat khøef tiøx. 🗣 (u: Cid khøef bøo hii, pat khøef tiøx.) 這溪無魚，別溪釣。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

比喻此處無法謀生 ， 就到別處謀生 ， 不用死守一地 。

hii-tiørar 🗣 (u: hii-tiøx'ar) 魚釣仔 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

釣竿 。

tiørhii 🗣 (u: tiøx'hii) 釣魚 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

. () to fish (with line and hook); to dupe

釣魚

tiørhii-afng 🗣 (u: tiøx'hii-afng) 釣魚翁 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

翠鳥 、 魚狗 。 禽鳥類 。 臺灣地區常見留鳥的一種 。 大多棲息於平地至山麓 、 丘陵之溪流 、 池塘 、 湖沼等地 。 常單獨棲坐於離水面不高樹枝上 ， 若發現魚蝦出現即刻入水捕捉 ， 以喙尖咬緊其頭部 ， 在樹幹上敲打後嚥食 。

Tiørhii-taai 🗣 (u: Tiøx'hii-taai) 釣魚台 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

島嶼 ( 附錄 － 地名 － 臺灣縣市行政區名 )

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Taiwanese Dictionaries – Sources

• HTB: "Hiexntai-buun" Dictionary (in Taiwanese Hokkien, English and Chinese). Modern Taiwanese Language Association.

• 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), and Maryknoll (2001).

• 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.