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Life is full of difficulties, everything doesn't go the way we want it to. (Lit. Man's life is not as the heart desires, ten things include eight things and nine things.)

人生不如意的事，十有八九。

jinsefng tiet'hak [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: jiin'sefng tied'hak ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

philosophy of human life

人生哲學

kofhy [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: kor'hy ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

seventy years old

古稀

Jinsefng chitsip koflaai hy. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Jiin'sefng chid'sip kor'laai hy. ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
A man of seventy years has rarely been seen since ancient times
人生七十古來稀。

EDUTECH (1)

jinsefng 人生 [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: jyn/jiin'sefng ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]: human life; 人生

EDUTECH_GTW (2)

jinsefng 人生 [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: jyn/jiin'sefng ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]: 人生
jinsefng-koafn 人生觀 [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: jyn/jiin'sefng-koafn ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

Embree (1)

jinsefng 人生 [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: jiin'sefng ⬆︎ [[...]][i#] [p.117]: N : human life (usually with reference to the conditions under which it is lived) <jin5-seng ki2-ho5: How short human life is!>; 人生

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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.