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Cit ee gyn'ar khaq lau jiet svaf ee toaxlaang. 🗣 (u: Cit ee girn'ar khaq lau jiet svaf ee toa'laang.) 一个囡仔較鬧熱三个大人。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

有小孩 ， 家庭就會熱鬧起來 。

khaq-toaxbin 🗣 (u: khaq-toa'bin) 較大面 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

可能性比較大 。

Svef`ee chviar cit pvy, iorng`ee unzeeng khaq toa thvy./Svy`ee chviar cit pvy, iorng`ee unzeeng khaq toa thvy. 🗣 (u: Svef/Svy`ee chviar cit pvy, iorng`ee wn'zeeng khaq toa thvy.) 生的請一邊，養的恩情較大天。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

提醒被撫養人不要抹煞養育人的苦心與功勞 。

thaukhahtoaxsyn 🗣 (u: thaau'khaq'toa'syn) 頭較大身 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

頭部比身軀大 。 本末倒置 。 比喻次要的事情比主要的事情還要花費更多的心力 、 金錢等 。 比喻事情反而變得更麻煩 ， 難以收拾 。

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Taiwanese Dictionaries – Sources

• HTB: "Hiexntai-buun" Dictionary (in Taiwanese Hokkien, English and Chinese). Modern Taiwanese Language Association.

• 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), and Maryknoll (2001).

• 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.