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🗣 tiausog 🗣 (u: tiaw'sog ⬆︎ ) 雕塑 [wt][mo][[MK]] tiau-sok [#]

1. () (CE) a statue; a Buddhist image; sculpture; to carve || 雕塑

🗣 tiaw 🗣 (u: tiaw ⬆︎ ) 刁 [wt][mo][[MK]] tiau [#]

1. (V) to be hard on sb; to deliberately make things difficult (for someone) || 刁難、為難。

🗣le: (u: Yn thaau'kef cyn gaau ka laang tiaw.) 🗣 (𪜶頭家真𠢕共人刁。) (他們的老闆很會為難人。)
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2. (V) deliberately; on purpose || 故意。

🗣le: (u: tiaw'kox'ix) 🗣 (刁故意) (故意)

🗣le: (u: tiaw'kafng) 🗣 (刁工) (故意)

🗣 tiaw 🗣 (u: tiaw ⬆︎ ) 雕 [wt][mo][[MK]] tiau [#]

1. (V) to use tools to carve, engrave raw material || 以工具鏤刻材料。

🗣le: (u: Cid tex pafng'ar beq tiaw cit luie hoef.) 🗣 (這塊枋仔欲雕一蕊花。) (這塊板子要雕一朵花。)

2. (V) to bend in order to form it into a curved, crooked shape || 拗、折物品使之彎曲。

🗣le: (u: tiaw chiu'ky) 🗣 (雕樹枝) (把樹枝拗彎)

3. (V) by analogy, to instruct, teach, train (shape) someone's personality to become some kind of pattern || 比喻為將人的個性調教成某種樣子。

🗣le: (u: Kax girn'ar aix zu sex'haxn tiaw.) 🗣 (教囡仔愛自細漢雕。) (小孩子要從小開始調教。)

4. (V) to decorate; to dress up; to arrange || 打扮。

🗣le: (u: Y kiexn'na zhud'mngg lorng tiaw cit sw sef'zofng.) 🗣 (伊見若出門攏雕一軀西裝。) (他只要出門就穿著一身西裝。)

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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)
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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.