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zuytefng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

water lantern; a paper lantern put in the water to guide the spirit of the dead

水燈 (為普渡亡魂)

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🗣 parngzuytefng 🗣 (u: paxng'zuie'tefng) 放水燈 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

一種民俗 ， 源於佛教 。 中國佛教徒於農曆七月十五日舉行盂蘭盆會 ， 普施一切餓鬼 。 民間以放水燈通知水中鬼魂和餓鬼 ， 來接受拖捨 。 水燈一般都以色紙作成蓮花形 。 在臺灣是用竹條和紙糊製 ， 有圓形燈或小屋形的紙厝 。 在普渡的前一天 ， 由僧人或道士引導遊行 ， 持圓形燈在前頭 ， 拿紙厝在最後 。 行至河邊將燈置在水燈筏上 ， 放入水中 ， 稱為 「 放水燈 」。

🗣 zuytefng 🗣 (u: zuie'tefng) 水燈 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

普渡的時候放在水中的燈籠 ， 用來指引無主孤魂上岸享用祭品 。

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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.