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hongsuie [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: hofng'suie ⬆︎ [[...]]

Chinese geomantic system by means of which sites are determined for graves, which sites are said to have an influence on the people (wind and water, "feng shwei")

風水,墳墓

hongsuie hør [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: hofng'suie hør ⬆︎ [[...]]
good locality in geomantic sense, good "feng-shwei"
風水好

Y ee hongsuie ti tøh'ui? [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Y ee hofng'suie ti tøq'ui? ⬆︎ [[...]]
Where is his grave?
他的墳墓在那兒?

hongsuie siensvy [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: hofng'suie siefn'svy ⬆︎ [[...]]

geomancer

風水先生

Vii`laang øe pvie, pvie`laang øe vii. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: vii'laang e pvie, pvie'laang e vii; Vii`laang øe pvie, pvie`laang øe vii. ⬆︎ [[...]]

The rich man will become poor. The poor man will become rich.

風水輪流轉。三十年河東,三十年河西

Svanii cidjun, høfphvae ciaoluun. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Svaf'nii cit'jun, hør'phvae ciaux'luun. ⬆︎ [[...]]

Fortune and misfortune come in three year cycles. Every dog has its day.

風水輪流轉,三十年河東,三十年河西。

suie [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: suie; (zuie) ⬆︎ [[...]]

water, liquid, fluid, juice, sap

水

hoksuie laan siw [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: hog'suie laan siw ⬆︎ [[...]]
spilt water cannot be gathered up
覆水難收

hør zhuiesuie [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: hør zhuix'suie ⬆︎ [[...]]
good at polite phrases and flattering talk
嘴甜,很會說話

hongsuie [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: hofng'suie ⬆︎ [[...]]
landscape geomancy, grave, especially as regards good luck
風水

sansuie [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: safn'suie ⬆︎ [[...]]
scenery, landscape
山水

uxsii [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: u'sii; (u'sii'ar) ⬆︎ [[...]]

sometimes, occasionally, now and then

有時,往往

Uxsii goeqkngf, uxsii jidkngf. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: U'sii goeh'kngf, u'sii jit'kngf.; U'sii gøeh'kngf, u'sii jit'kngf. ⬆︎ [[...]]
Sometimes the moon is bright, sometimes the sun is bright. — Every dog has its day. Fortune is changeable
風水輪流轉,三十年河東,三十年河西

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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)
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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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