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🗣u: giok pud tog, pud seeng khix ⬆︎ 玉不琢，不成器 [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.] [d#]: 玉不琢，不成器

Maryknoll (4)

giok pud tog, pud seeng khix. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: giok pud tog, pud seeng khix. ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

A person must be disciplined and educated to be a useful citizen. (Lit. Jade must be cut and chiseled to make it a useful vessel.)

玉不琢,不成器

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

carve, polish or work (a gem), cut or polish stones or jewels

琢

giok puttog putsengkhix [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: giok pud'tog pud'seeng'khix ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
if jade be not worked it does not become a useful article
玉不琢不成器

tiautog [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: tiaw'tog ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
carve and work (a gem)
雕琢

Lim08 (1)

u: giok pud'tog pud'seeng'khix ⬆︎ 玉不琢不成器 [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]][i#] [p.349] [p.349] [#FHL][#CT]: ( 文 )<>

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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.