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inform a man

告人知

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Kawgøeh thay, bøo laang zay. 🗣 (u: Kao'gøeh thay, bøo laang zay.) 九月颱，無人知。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

比喻天有不測風雲 ， 人有旦夕禍福 。

Sym phvae bøo laang zay, zhuix phvae siong lixhai. 🗣 (u: Sym phvae bøo laang zay, zhuix phvae siong li'hai.) 心歹無人知，喙歹上厲害。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

告誡人要謹慎言行 。

Cit bor bølaang zay, nng bor siøsiartai./Cit bor bølaang zay, nng bor svasiartai. 🗣 (u: Cit bor bøo'laang zay, nng bor siøf/svaf'siax'tai.) 一某無人知，兩某相卸代。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

家中二妻爭執 ， 因互相謾罵而使得家醜外揚 。

Ka'ki zay cit zaang, khaq viaa khvoax padlaang. 🗣 (u: Kaf'ki zay cit zaang, khaq viaa khvoax pat'laang.) 家己栽一欉，較贏看別人。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

比喻要靠自己不要靠別人 。

Khngx laang zøx hør tai, khah'viaa ciah zafzay./Khngx laang zøex hør tai, khah'viaa ciah zafzay. 🗣 (u: Khngx laang zøx/zøex hør tai, khaq'viaa ciah zar'zay.) 勸人做好代，較贏食早齋。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

強調積功德要重實質而輕形式 。 也有諷刺嘴巴吃齋卻心無善念的人的意思 。

mxzailaang 🗣 (u: m'zay'laang) 毋知人 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

昏迷不醒人事 。

thonglangzay 🗣 (u: thofng'laang'zay) 通人知 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

眾人皆知 。

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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.