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DFT (1)

🗣 Laang nng khaf, cvii six khaf. 🗣 (u: Laang nng khaf, cvii six khaf. ⬆︎ ) 人兩跤，錢四跤。 [wt][mo][[MK]] Lâng nn̄g kha, tsînn sì kha. [#]

1. () || 人只有兩條腿，錢有四條腿，兩條腿跑得慢，四條腿跑得快，兩條腿的人永遠追不上四條腿的錢。比喻賺錢不易。

🗣le: (u: Suy'jieen siok'gie korng, “Laang nng khaf, cvii six khaf.” M'køq ti Taai'oaan cid ciorng khay'hoxng, zu'iuu ee sia'hoe, na kherng phaq'pviax køq e piexn'khiaux, iw'goaan e'taxng thaxn'tiøh kaux'giah ee cvii thafng bea chiaf, bea zhux.) 🗣 (雖然俗語講：「人兩跤，錢四跤。」毋過佇臺灣這種開放、自由的社會，若肯拍拚閣會變竅，猶原會當趁著夠額的錢通買車、買厝。) (雖然俗話說：「人兩條腿、錢四條腿。」不過在臺灣這種開放、自由的社會，要是肯努力又會變通，仍然可以賺到足夠的錢好買車、買房子。)
近義：

Cvii six khaf, laang nng khaf., 錢四跤，人兩跤。

Maryknoll (1)

løkafng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: løo'kafng ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]: factory work, labor, laborers, workers; 勞工

Embree (1)

phutin'ar 浮塵仔 [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: phuu'tiin'ar ⬆︎ [[...]][i#] [p.218]: N chiah : any of several leaf-hoppers, family Jassidae, order Homoptera; 浮塵子

Lim08 (1)

u: kaam'zuie ⬆︎ 含水 [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]][i#] [p.223] [p.223] [#FHL][#CT]: < 田螺 ∼∼ 過冬＝意思：忍耐等待時機 ; 柴 ∼∼ ti7 - teh hiaN5 khah - be7 toh8 。 >

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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)
Lim08: 台語辭典(台日大辭典台語譯本)查詢 [Taiwanese Dictionary (translation of Tai—Nichi Dai Jiten (TDJ)) search] (in Taiwanese Hokkien). Sìn Bōng Ài [Faith Hope Love]. 2008. We make updates and corrections, and refer to Lim19: 台語辭典(台日大辭典台語譯本)查詢2019 [Taiwanese Dictionary (translation of TDJ) search] (in Taiwanese Hokkien). Sìn Bōng Ài [Faith Hope Love]. 2019.
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.