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🗣 Bøe ciah Goxjidzøeq zaxng, phoax hiuu m kafm paxng. 🗣 (u: Boe ciah Go'jit'zeq zaxng, phoax hiuu m kafm paxng. Bøe ciah Go'jit'zøeq zaxng, phoax hiuu m kafm paxng.) 未食五日節粽，破裘毋甘放。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

還沒吃端午節粽子 ， 破棉襖捨不得放 。 臺灣的氣候在端午節之前 ， 都還可能有轉冷 ， 所以還沒過端午節 ， 冬衣不能收起來 ， 是前人觀察天氣變化所得的經驗 。

🗣 bøexciaqbøexkhuxn 🗣 (u: be boe'ciah'be boe'khuxn bøe'ciah'bøe'khuxn) 袂食袂睏 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

茶飯不思 、 寢食難安 。 形容情緒或者精神不佳 ， 吃不下飯 ， 睡不著 。

🗣 Øexhiao thaw ciah, bøexhiao chid zhuix. 🗣 (u: E'hiao thaw ciah, be'hiao chid zhuix. Øe'hiao thaw ciah, bøe'hiao chid zhuix.) 會曉偷食，袂曉拭喙。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

只知道要偷吃 ， 卻不知道要把嘴巴擦乾淨 。 比喻做壞事後 ， 不懂得湮滅證據 ， 讓人發現 。

🗣 Siaolieen bøexhiao sviu, ciaqlau mxcviaviu. 🗣 (u: Siaux'lieen be'hiao sviu, ciah'lau m'cviaa'viu. Siaux'lieen bøe'hiao sviu, ciah'lau m'cviaa'viu.) 少年袂曉想，食老毋成樣。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

年輕時思慮不周 ， 等到老了生活堪憂 。 年輕時沒有做好生涯規劃 ， 年老時便會落魄潦倒 。 意即少壯不努力 ， 老大徒傷悲 。 用來勉勵人年輕時要有遠見 ， 努力為未來鋪路 。

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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.