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Zap kviar zap sinpu, zhwn cit ee lau koafhu. 🗣 (u: Zap kviar zap syn'pu, zhwn cit ee lau koar'hu.) 十囝十新婦，賰一个老寡婦。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

十個兒子娶了十個媳婦 ， 卻留下一個年老守寡的媽媽沒人照料 。 形容兒子大了各自成家 ， 年老守寡的母親卻無人願意照顧 。

Cit ee cvii phaq jixzabsix ee kad. 🗣 (u: Cit ee cvii phaq ji'zap'six ee kad.) 一个錢拍二十四个結。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

一個錢打二十四個結 。 譏諷人吝於用錢 ， 視財如命 。

Cit nii voa jixzabsix ee thaukef. 🗣 (u: Cit nii voa ji'zap'six ee thaau'kef.) 一年換二十四个頭家。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

一年換了二十四個雇主 。 形容人做事沒有定性 ， 無法專心學習 ， 時常換工作 ， 最後一事無成 。

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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)

• MK: 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)

• Lim19: 台語辭典(台日大辭典台語譯本)查詢 [Taiwanese Dictionary (translation of Tai—Nichi Dai Jiten) search] (in Taiwanese Hokkien). Sìn Bōng Ài [Faith Hope Love]. 2019. (Lim08 data: GitHub - Lim-Chun-iok_2008_Tai-jip-Tua-su-tian)

• 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.