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Htb (cache) (2)

iwli [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

advantageous; to have advantages; favorable; be profitable

有利

iwli pid iwpex [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

Advantages are inevitably accompanied by disadvantages. -- you can't have your cake and eat it too

有利必有弊

DFT (4)

🗣 hm'afzhao 🗣 (u: hmm'ar'zhao) 茅仔草 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

茅草 。 多年生草本 ， 花序穗狀 ， 密生白色柔毛 。 根莖有甜味 ， 供藥用 ， 有利尿 、 止血等作用 ， 莖葉可供蓋屋 、 製繩等用 。

🗣 iwli 🗣 (u: iuo'li) 有利 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

1. () (CE) advantageous; to have advantages; favorable

有利

🗣 zhaethaau 🗣 (u: zhaix'thaau) 菜頭 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

蘿蔔 。 根莖類 。 莖高尺餘 ， 根呈長圓柱形或球形 ， 皮白色或紅色 。 根多肉質 ， 可食 ， 有利尿助消化的功效 。 因和 「 彩頭 」 諧音 ， 喜慶時多會準備來討個吉利 。

🗣 zhvekii/chvikii 🗣 (u: zhvef/chvy'kii) 青耆 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

黃耆 。 草本植物 。 根莖部分常被中醫用以入藥 ， 有利尿 、 補氣等作用 。

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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.