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khor [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

bitter; painful; bitter; sorrow; suffering; painstaking; difficult; miserable; feel miserable about

苦; 許

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khofleng'ar 🗣 (u: khor'leng'ar) 苦楝仔 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

苦苓 、 苦楝子 。 木本植物 ， 葉子呈羽狀複葉 ， 前端尖銳 ， 靠近葉柄呈圓形 ， 每年五月下旬開紅白色花 。 多分布於中國南方各省 、 印度和日本 。 由於材質硬度適中 ， 可製成家具 ， 也常栽培用來作行道樹 。 有些地區因為忌諱 「 苦 」 ， 所以不用苦楝樹的木材來做椅子 ， 因為這樣會 「 坐苦 」 。

khor 🗣 (u: khor) 苦 [wt][mo] [h] (h,u) [d#]

1. (Adj) bitter 2. (Adj) painful; forlorn; miserable; sorrowful 3. (Adv) painstakingly; making an all-out effort; to try one's heart out; to do one's utmost 4. (Adj) arduous; difficult; toilsome; hard

五味之一 。 痛苦 、 悲苦 。 盡心盡力 。 艱辛 、 勞苦 。

kw 🗣 (u: kw) 苦^t [wt][mo] [h] (h,u) [d#]

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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.