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zaixsvef [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: zai'svef [[...]][i#] [p.]

be among the living, be living, be in the world, not dead

在世

• Zaixsvef ciah cit liap tau, khahhør syau haux ti'thaau. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Zai'svef ciah cit liap tau, khaq'hør sie'au haux ty'thaau.; Zai'svef/svy ciah cit liap tau, khaq'hør sie'au haux ty'thaau. [[...]][i#] [p.]
  It's better to take care of parents while they are alive rather than make a show of being filial at their funeral. (Lit. Better to give parents one bean when living rather than to offer them a pig's head after they die.)
  在生吃一粒豆,勝過死後孝豬頭。父母在世時好好孝敬,比在身後才大事祭拜有意義。

• Zaixsvef m haux na'aau, syau ciaq haux kvoazha'thaau. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Zai'svef m haux naa'aau, sie'au ciaq haux kvoaf'zhaa'thaau.; Zai'svef/svy m haux naa'aau, sie'au ciaq haux kvoaf'zhaa'thaau. [[...]][i#] [p.]
  to pay respect to parents after they die after not taking care of them while they were living, unfilial
  父母在生不養,死後才想孝敬。

cviarthaau [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: cviax'thaau [[...]][i#] [p.]

the right side or doctrine, proper, correct, the right side as opposed to the reverse side, front, put or hold in the proper direction

正面,正端

• He cviarthaau. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: He cviax'thaau. [[...]][i#] [p.]
  Lay in the proper direction.
  放正

• Cid siafng ti , tøq cit thaau si cviarthaau, tøq cit thaau si tørthaau? [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Cid siafng ti , tøq cit thaau si cviax'thaau, tøq cit thaau si tøx'thaau? [[...]][i#] [p.]
  Which is the right end of these chopsticks?
  這雙筷子那一 端是頭,那一端是尾 ?

• U ee khuxn cviarthaau, u ee khuxn tørthaau. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: U ee khuxn cviax'thaau, u ee khuxn tøx'thaau. [[...]][i#] [p.]
  Some are sleeping in the proper direction, some are not.
  有的睡正端,有的睡另一端。

høea siøf ti'thaau [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: hoea siøf ty'thaau; høea siøf ty'thaau [[...]][i#] [p.]

said of a person who is already very familiar (Lit. burnt pig's head, face very well done)

火燒豬頭,很面熟

tefngsy koarn exsy, ti'thaau koarn purnky. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: terng'sy koarn e'sy, tii'thaau koarn puxn'ky. [[...]][i#] [p.]

upper will rule lower, the mattock rules the bamboo scoop, at every level the superior will lord it over the inferior

上司管下司,鋤頭管畚箕,大魚吃小魚,小魚吃蝦子,大壓小。

ti'thaau [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: ty'thaau [[...]][i#] [p.]

pig's head

豬頭

ti'thaau [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: tii'thaau [[...]][i#] [p.]

to hoe, a hoe

鋤頭

ti'thaau-phøee [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: ty'thaau'phoee; ty'thaau-phøee [[...]][i#] [p.]

skin from a pig's head

豬頭皮

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