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zawkao^† [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

running dog; lackey; servile dependent (a term of abuse)

走狗

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🗣 zawkao 🗣 (u: zao'kao) 走狗 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

受人差使而協助作惡的人 。

🗣 Kax ty kax kao, putjuu ka'ki zao. 🗣 (u: Kax ty kax kao, pud'juu kaf'ki zao.) 教豬教狗，不如家己走。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

支使豬支使狗 ， 不如自己跑 。 比喻與其依靠別人不如靠自己 ， 亦即求人不如求己 。

🗣 Kex køef tøex køef pøef, kex kao tøex kao zao. 🗣 (u: Kex kef toex kef poef, kex kao toex kao zao. Kex køef tøex køef pøef, kex kao tøex kao zao.) 嫁雞綴雞飛，嫁狗綴狗走。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

嫁雞隨雞 ， 嫁狗隨狗 。 說明傳統社會要求女子結婚之後 ， 不論丈夫是什麼樣的人 ， 都要終身跟隨 ， 從一而終 。

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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.