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HTB (3)

khvoarthaau^† [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]: that which is worth seeing; keep an eye on; keep watch (as sentry set by persons secretly engaged in some illegal; impure; or improper action); act as a lookout; 看頭; 把風
khvoarthaau-khvoarbøea [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]: give occasional help (like a master in a shop); look after a business for a man in his absence; 看頭看尾; 關照
zøx-khvoarthaau^† [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]: be a watchman; 把風的

DFT (1)

🗣 khvoarthaau 🗣 (u: khvoax'thaau ⬆︎ ) 看頭 [wt][mo][[MK]] khuànn-thâu [#]

1. (N) || 指外表、可看的地方。

🗣le: (u: Y toa'khof'pea si hør'khvoax'thaau, syn'thea kii'sit bøo thafng hør.) 🗣 (伊大箍把是好看頭，身體其實無通好。) (他身材高大外表是好看，其實身體狀況並不好。)
近義：

svetviw, 生張

2. (V) || 把風。替人守望以便警告。

🗣le: (u: Goar kiøx y ti goa'khao khvoax'thaau.) 🗣 (我叫伊佇外口看頭。) (我叫他在外面把風。)

Maryknoll (6)

zøx khvoarthaau [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: zøx khvoax'thaau ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

be a watchman

把風的

khvoarthaau [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: khvoax'thaau ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

keep watch (as sentry set by persons secretly engaged in some illegal, impure, or improper action), act as a lookout

把風

Lie zøx khvoarthaau. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Lie zøx khvoax'thaau. ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
You be lookout.
你把風

khvoarthaau [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: khvoax'thaau ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

outward appearance, external look

外觀

Y si hør khvoarthaau niaxnia. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Y si hør khvoax'thaau nia'nia. ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
Only his outward appearance is good.
他只是好看而已。

khvoarthaau-khvoarbøea [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: khvoax'thaau khvoax'boea; khvoax'thaau-khvoax'bøea ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

give occasional help (like a master in a shop), look after a business for a man in his absence

看頭看尾,關照

EDUTECH_GTW (1)

khvoarthaau 看頭 [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: khvoax'thaau ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]: 看頭

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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.