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Maryknoll (6)

itpo tengthiefn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: id'po tefng'thiefn ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

meteoric rise or fast advancement (in one's career)

一步登天

laan jii tengthiefn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: laan jii tefng'thiefn ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

as difficult as going to heaven

難如登天

tengthiefn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: tefng'thiefn ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

climbing to heaven — something very difficult

登天

laan jii tengthiefn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: laan jii tefng'thiefn ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
as difficult as going to heaven
難如登天

thientefng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: thiefn'tefng ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

like a hot air balloon made of paper, a fire is lighten inside which makes it rise in the sky

天燈

paxng thientefng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: paxng thiefn'tefng ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
ceremony for releasing "thian-teng" signifying prayer requests
放天燈

Lim08 (2)

u: thiefn'tefng ⬆︎ 天燈 [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]][i#] [p.287] [p.287] [#FHL][#CT]: ( 1 ) 店頭e5電火。 ( 2 ) 祭拜天神e5時用e5燈。 <>
u: thiefn'tefng lui'khie ⬆︎ 天燈縋起 [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]][i#] [p.287] [p.287] [#FHL][#CT]: ( 盜賊e5隱語 ) 放火。 <>

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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.