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Htb (cache) (5)

bad bøkaux [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

do not know sufficiently

識不夠; 學得不夠

bøkaux chixn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

weigh a thing lighter than it should be

無夠秤; 不夠秤

bøkaux`tiøh [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

not enough; insufficient

無夠著

ciah-bøkaux [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

not enough to eat

吃無夠; 不夠吃

khuxn bøkaux biin [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

want of sleep

沒睡足; 睡無夠眠

DFT (6)

🗣 bøkaux 🗣 (u: bøo'kaux) 無夠 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

不夠 、 不到 ， 表示程度上的不足 。

🗣 Zhvef ciah tøf bøkaux, nar u thafng phagkvoaf./Chvy ciah tøf bøkaux, nar u thafng phagkvoaf. 🗣 (u: Zhvef/Chvy ciah tøf bøo'kaux, nar u thafng phak'kvoaf.) 生食都無夠，哪有通曝乾。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

生吃都不夠了 ， 哪有多餘的可以曬乾 。「 曝乾 」 通常是指食物過剩時曬乾儲存 。 比喻現實生活已捉襟見肘 ， 對未來的日子更不敢奢望 。

🗣 bøkaotang 🗣 (u: bøo'kaux'tang) 無夠重 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

不夠重 、 重量不足 ， 也引申為看不起人 。

🗣 bøo-kaogøeh 🗣 (u: bøo'kaux'goeh geh bøo-kaux'gøeh) 無夠月 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

早產 。 胎兒在子宮內發育月數不足 ， 便因故出生 。

🗣 Jinzeeng-seasu poee kaokaux, bøo tviar køq bøo zaux. 🗣 (u: Jiin'zeeng-sex'su poee kaux'kaux, bøo tviar køq bøo zaux.) 人情世事陪到到，無鼎閣無灶。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

人情世故樣樣奉陪 ， 沒鍋又沒灶 。 意即所有的人情世故都要應對得體面 ， 所費不貲 ， 可能會窮到斷炊 。 形容人為了應付各種交際應酬而產生的經濟問題 ， 並勸導人應酬要節制 ， 適可而止 ， 對社會上的繁文縟節要量力而行 。

🗣 Sii kaux sii tamtngf, bøo bie ciaq zuo hancii-thngf./Sii kaux sii tamtngf, bøo bie ciaq zuo hanzuu-thngf. 🗣 (u: Sii kaux sii tafm'tngf, bøo bie ciaq zuo hafn'cii/zuu-thngf.) 時到時擔當，無米才煮番薯湯。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

時候到了再看著辦 ， 沒有米可以煮飯就拿地瓜煮湯 。 形容事情自然有因應之道 ， 如果一事不成 ， 也另有替代之道 。

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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)

• 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), 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)

• 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.