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cidee cvii phaq jixsix kad [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

cheapskate; tight fisted; has to untie4 knots before he will spend a dollar. (Lit. One dollar is tied up by twenty-four knots.)

一個錢打二四結; 吝嗇鬼

jixsix haux [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

twenty-four examples of filial piety

二四孝

DFT (3)

🗣 Cit ee cvii phaq jixzabsix ee kad. 🗣 (u: Cit ee cvii phaq ji'zap'six ee kad.) 一个錢拍二十四个結。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

一個錢打二十四個結 。 譏諷人吝於用錢 ， 視財如命 。

🗣 Cit nii voa jixzabsix ee thaukef. 🗣 (u: Cit nii voa ji'zap'six ee thaau'kef.) 一年換二十四个頭家。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

一年換了二十四個雇主 。 形容人做事沒有定性 ， 無法專心學習 ， 時常換工作 ， 最後一事無成 。

🗣 Id chieen, ji ieen, svaf suie, six siaolieen. 🗣 (u: Id chieen, ji ieen, svaf suie, six siaux'lieen.) 一錢，二緣，三媠，四少年。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

首先有錢 ， 其次人見人愛 ， 再來英俊 ， 接著是年輕 。 相傳舊時男性追求女性的基本條件 。 另有一說是現代人選女婿的四要件 。

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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.