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im'ioong oafnzai [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: ym'ioong oarn'zai ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

His or her voice and appearance seem to be still with us (a conventional written expression referring to the deceased in a funeral rite).

音容宛在

Oarn zai chienlie, kin zai gafncieen. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Oarn zai chiefn'lie, kin zai garn'cieen.; Oarn zai chiefn'lie, kin/kun zai garn'cieen. ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

found close by (Lit. Distant a thousand miles, yet near and before one's eyes.)

遠在千里,近在眼前。

oafnchyn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: oarn'chyn ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

distant relative, relatives from afar

遠親

Hux zai chimsafn iuo oafnchyn, piin zai nauxchi buu jiin bun. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Hux zai chym'safn iuo oarn'chyn, piin zai nau'chi buu jiin bun. ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
The rich in the mountains has relatives from afar, while the poor in a bustling street has no one to take notice of him.
富在深山有遠親，貧在鬧市無人問。

phien'oarn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: phiefn'oarn ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

remote, faraway

偏遠

Polie si ti cyn phien'oarn ee sofzai. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Pof'lie si ti cyn phiefn'oarn ee sor'zai. ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
Puli is in a very remote place.
埔里是在很偏遠的地方。

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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.