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Htb (cache) (1)

liah kw zao piq [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

let a turtle escape to catch a tortoise ─ neglect one thing to do something else; and spoil both; Who wants everything; loses all+D1727 can not get two things at one time

捉龜走虌; 顧此失彼

DFT (3)

Kw chiøx piq bøo bøea, piq chiøx kw zhof phøee. 🗣 (u: Kw chiøx piq bøo boea, piq chiøx kw zhof phoee. Kw chiøx piq bøo bøea, piq chiøx kw zhof phøee.) 龜笑鱉無尾，鱉笑龜粗皮。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

龜笑鱉沒有尾巴 ， 鱉笑龜皮膚粗 。 指人只會批評別人的缺點 ， 卻不知自己的缺點也不少 。

kukupihpiq 🗣 (u: kw'kw'piq'piq) 龜龜鱉鱉 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

形容個性彆扭 ， 不乾不脆 。 形容人神神祕祕 、 遮遮掩掩 ， 好像有不可告人的事的樣子 。

liaqkw-zawpiq 🗣 (u: liah'kw-zao'piq) 掠龜走鱉 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

顧此失彼 。 注意這個卻忽略了那個 。 指不能全面兼顧 。

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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.