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HTB (4)

ciartoafn sengsu [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]: stir up trouble on a pretext or excuse; 藉端生事
sengsu [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]: create trouble; give rise to a disturbance; 生事; 惹事; 滋事
sengsu zai thiefn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]: man proposes; God disposes; 成事在天
zøxiaau sengsu^† [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]: start rumors and incite incidents; 造謠生事

Maryknoll (7)

bosu [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: boo'su ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

make a plan for something

謀事

Bosu zai jiin, sengsu zai thiefn. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Boo'su zai jiin, seeng'su zai thiefn. ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
Man proposes, God disposes
謀事在人，成事在天。

ciartoafn sengsu [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: ciax'toafn sefng'su ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

stir up trouble on a pretext or excuse

藉端生事

zøxiaau sengsu [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: zø'iaau sefng'su ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

start rumors and incite incidents

造謠生事

sengsu [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: sefng'su ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

create trouble, give rise to a disturbance

生事,滋事

sengsu zai thiefn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: seeng'su zai thiefn ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

man proposes, God disposes

成事在天

sengsu putciog, paixsu iwii [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: seeng'su pud'ciog, pai'su iuo'ii ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

have not enough capacity for success yet more than enough for disaster — apt to bungle

成事不足，敗事有餘。

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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.