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Htb (cache) (5)

byjiin [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

pretty girl; beautiful woman; beauty

美人

byjiin-kex [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

a plot with a woman as seducer

美人計

byjinhii [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

mermaid

美人魚

byjinkex [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

use a pretty woman as a snare

美人計

byjinkiok [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

entice into evil through a pretty face; a confidence trick or scheme in which a woman is used as a decoy

美人局

DFT (3)

byjiin 🗣 (u: bie'jiin) 美人 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

漂亮的女子 。

kajiin 🗣 (u: kaf'jiin) 佳人 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

美人 。

lienciau'hoef/lanciaw 🗣 (u: lieen'ciaw'hoef laan'ciaw) 蓮蕉花 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

美人蕉 。 花名 。 葉長橢圓形 ， 夏天葉心出花 ， 有卵圓形披針狀的苞 。 花序直立 ， 苞尖端多呈黃色 ， 花色繁富而以紅 、 黃為多 。 因名稱和 「 𡳞鳥 」( lān - tsiáu ) 諧音 ， 所以在結婚時女方送給男方的禮品當中要準備 ， 以祝福新人早生貴子 。

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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.