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Cit liap bie, paq liap kvoa. 🗣 (u: Cit liap bie, paq liap kvoa.) 一粒米，百粒汗。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

每一粒米都是農夫流下許多汗水 ， 辛苦栽種出來的 。 指農夫種田辛勞 ， 糧食得來不易 ， 勸人不要任意浪費 。

Cit liap zhanlee zuo kao voafkofng thngf. 🗣 (u: Cit liap zhaan'lee zuo kao voar'kofng thngf.) 一粒田螺煮九碗公湯。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

一隻田螺煮九海碗湯 。 形容生活貧苦 ， 或比喻沒有真材實料 ， 只是灌水充數 。

Zaixsvef cit liap tau, khaq viaa syliao paix ti'thaau./Zaixsvy cit liap tau, khaq viaa syliao paix ti'thaau. 🗣 (u: Zai'svef/svy cit liap tau, khaq viaa sie'liao paix ty'thaau.) 在生一粒豆，較贏死了拜豬頭。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

父母健在的時候吃兒女孝敬的一顆豆子 ， 勝過去世後兒女才以豬頭來祭拜 。 提醒人行孝要及時 ； 又指死後子女以盛大喪禮祭拜 ， 雖是風光 ， 卻不如父母在生時略盡奉養之責 ， 只有生前奉養才是真的孝順 。 傳統禮俗 ， 父母去世時 ， 要準備豬頭做祭拜的大牲禮 。

Svaf tai liabzeg, cit tai khengkhofng. 🗣 (u: Svaf tai liap'zeg, cit tai kheeng'khofng.) 三代粒積，一代窮空。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

三代累積 ， 一代敗光 。 即三代人辛苦累積的財富 ， 卻被後代一人揮霍殆盡 。 比喻創業艱辛 ， 守成要謹慎 。

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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.