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HTB (2)

khiuu [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]: mean; miser; curled; curly; penurious; very economical and rather niggardly; 虯; 吝嗇; 儉; 捲
kii [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]: flag; a period of time; branching off; odd; prayall forms of chess game; his; her; its; he; she; it; this; that; 旗; 期; 岐; 奇; ; 祈; 祁; 棋; 畸; 畿; 虯; 綦; 其

DFT (4)

🗣 khiukhiam 🗣 (u: khiuu'khiam ⬆︎ ) 虯儉 [wt][mo][[MK]] khiû-khiām [#]

1. (Adj) || 節儉、節約、儉省。

🗣le: (u: Y si khiuu'khiam ee laang, m'kafm khay'cvii hiarng'siu.) 🗣 (伊是虯儉的人，毋甘開錢享受。) (他是節儉的人，捨不得花錢享受。)
近義：

cietserng, 節省

🗣 khiukhiuu 🗣 (u: khiuu'khiuu ⬆︎ ) 虯虯 [wt][mo][[MK]] khiû-khiû [#]

1. (Adj) || 蜷曲。通常用來形容毛髮。

🗣le: (u: Y ee thaau'mngg khiuu'khiuu.) 🗣 (伊的頭毛虯虯。) (他的頭髮捲捲的。)

🗣 khiumngg 🗣 (u: khiuu'mngg khiuu'mof khiuu'moo ⬆︎ ) 虯毛 [wt][mo][[MK]] khiû-mn̂g [#]

1. (Adj) || 頭髮或皮毛捲曲。

🗣le: (u: Y si khiuu'mngg`ee, biern tien'thaau'zafng.) 🗣 (伊是虯毛的，免電頭鬃。) (他是捲髮，不用燙頭髮。)

🗣 khiuu 🗣 (u: khiuu ⬆︎ ) 虯 [wt][mo][[MK]] khiû [#]

1. (V) to shrink; to contract; to pull back; to twist; to coil; to curl || 收縮、蜷曲。

🗣le: (u: Thaau'mngg hvaq'tiøh hoea tø khiuu`khix.) 🗣 (頭毛熁著火就虯去。) (頭髮一靠近火就收縮蜷曲。)

2. (Adj) shrunken; contracted; twisted; coiled; curled || 收縮、蜷曲的樣子。

🗣le: (u: khiuu'khaf) 🗣 (虯跤) (腳萎縮蜷曲)

🗣le: (u: khiuu'mngg) 🗣 (虯毛) (頭髮捲捲的)

3. (Adj) stingy; miserly; overly frugal || 比喻形容人過度節儉、吝嗇。

🗣le: (u: Y zøx'laang cyn khiuu.) 🗣 (伊做人真虯。) (他生性很吝嗇。)

🗣le: (u: khiuu'khiam) 🗣 (虯儉) (節約、儉省)
近義：

, 㾀屎

EDUTECH (1)

khiuu 虯 [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: khiuu ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]: curl up, curled, frizzled, niggardly, stingy; 彎曲; 捲曲

Embree (3)

khiuu 虯 [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: khiuu ⬆︎ [[...]][i#] [p.158]: V : curl up; 彎曲
khiuu 虯 [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: khiuu ⬆︎ [[...]][i#] [p.158]: SV : curled, frizzled; 捲曲
khiuu 虯 [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: khiuu ⬆︎ [[...]][i#] [p.158]: SV : niggardly, stingy; 捲曲

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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)
Maryknoll: 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)
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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.