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🗣 chirn'afhoef 🗣 (u: chixn'ar'hoef ⬆︎ ) 秤仔花 [wt][mo][[MK]] tshìn-á-hue [#]

1. (N) dots on beam of a steelyard indicating weight || 秤桿上標示斤兩的花點。

🗣 hor-chirnthaau 🗣 (u: hor-chixn'thaau ⬆︎ ) 唬秤頭 [wt][mo][[MK]] hóo-tshìn-thâu [#]

1. (V) to skimp weight. refers to doing business "skimping on catty and stinting on tael". to benefit at customer expense; to take unfair advantage of customer || 偷斤兩。指做生意偷斤減兩，占顧客便宜。

🗣le: (u: U ee sefng'lie'laang zøx'sefng'lie e hor'chixn'thaau, sor'ie bea mih'kvia aix sex'ji.) 🗣 (有的生理人做生理會唬秤頭，所以買物件愛細膩。) (有的生意人做生意會偷斤減兩，所以買東西要小心謹慎。)
近義：

ciaqchirnthaau, 食秤頭

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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)
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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)
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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.