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bi'miau/bi'biau 🗣 (u: bii'miau bii'biau) 微妙 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

. () subtle

微妙

bogbeeng-ki'miau/bogbengki'biau 🗣 (u: bok'beeng-kii'miau bok'beeng'kii'biau) 莫名其妙 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

. () unfathomable mystery (idiom); subtle and ineffable; unable to make head or tail of it; boring (e.g. movie)

莫名其妙

kimiau/kibiau/ki'miau/ki'biau 🗣 (u: kii'miau kii'biau) 奇妙 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

神奇奧妙 。

miau/biau 🗣 (u: miau biau) 妙 [wt][mo] [h] (h,u) [d#]

1. (Adj) magical; mystical; miraculous; ingenious; clever

神奇 、 巧妙 。

by'miau/bybiau 🗣 (u: bie'miau bie'biau) 美妙 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

. () beautiful; wonderful; splendid

美妙

miauxhngf/biauxhngf 🗣 (u: miau'hngf biau'hngf) 妙方 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

1. () ingenious method

妙方

ørmiau/ørbiau 🗣 (u: øx'miau øx'biau) 奧妙 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

. () marvelous; mysterious; profound; marvel; wonder

奧妙

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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.