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HTB (3)

siangthaau [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]: both ends; 雙頭
siangthaau bøo cidgvauq [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]: equally incapable of either; both proposals coming to nothing; ran after two hares and caught neither; 兩頭空
siangthaau-zoaa [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

DFT (2)

🗣 Kamciax bøo siangthaau tvy. 🗣 (u: Kafm'ciax bøo siafng'thaau tvy. ⬆︎ ) 甘蔗無雙頭甜。 [wt][mo][[MK]] Kam-tsià bô siang-thâu tinn. [#]

1. () || 甘蔗沒有頭尾都是甜的。比喻世事無法兩全其美，凡事有利就有弊，人不可能佔盡所有好處。

🗣le: (u: Siok'gie korng, “Kafm'ciax bøo siafng'thaau tvy.” Ia beq zhefng'eeng, ia beq thaxn toa cvii, sex'kafn nar u hiaq'ni hør'khafng ee tai'cix?) 🗣 (俗語講，「甘蔗無雙頭甜。」也欲清閒，也欲趁大錢，世間哪有遐爾好空的代誌？) (俗話說，「甘蔗沒有頭尾都是甜的。」又要清閒，又要賺大錢，世上哪有那麼好的事情？)
近義：

U cit hør, bøo nng hør., 有一好，無兩好。

🗣 siangthaau 🗣 (u: siafng'thaau ⬆︎ ) 雙頭 [wt][mo][[MK]] siang-thâu [#]

1. (N) || 兩頭、兩端。

🗣le: (u: Larn siafng'thaau lorng laai'khix zhoe khvoax'mai.) 🗣 (咱雙頭攏來去揣看覓。) (我們兩邊都去找找看。)

Maryknoll (5)

gvauq [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: gvauq ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

bite, gnaw

咬

ho kao gvauhtiøh [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: ho kao gvauq'tiøh ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
be bitten by a dog
被狗咬到

siangthaau bøo cit gvauq [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: siafng'thaau bøo cit gvauq ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
ran after two hares and caught neither
兩頭空

siangthaau [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: siafng'thaau ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

both ends

雙頭

siangthaau bøo cit gvauq [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: siafng'thaau bøo cit gvauq ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

equally incapable of either, both proposals coming to nothing, ran after two hares and caught neither

兩頭空

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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.