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Htb (cache) (4)

kharmthaau-kharmbin [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

don't see danger; silly; stupid

把頭臉都遮住; 傻乎乎的; 不知死活; 蓋頭蓋面

khorsiaau [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

muddled or mixed up characterized by rashness or recklessness

不知死活

m-zaisie [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

to act recklessly; to do sth. regardless of danger

不知危險; 不知死活

mxzay syoah [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

heedless of consequences; reckless; no idea of the fitness of things

不知死活

DFT (3)

🗣 Chitgøeqpvoax ah'ar, m zay syoah. 🗣 (u: Chid'goeh'pvoax aq'ar, m zay sie'oah. Chid'gøeh'pvoax aq'ar, m zay sie'oah.) 七月半鴨仔，毋知死活。 [wt][mo] [d#]

七月半的鴨子 ， 不知死活 。 七月半指農曆7月15日 ， 也就是 「 中元普渡 」， 為臺灣民間信仰祭拜孤魂野鬼的日子 。 民間信仰中雞是祭神的供品 ， 拜鬼只能用鴨子 ， 故有此說 。 形容人沒有憂患意識 ， 不知大難臨頭 。

🗣 kharmthaukharmbin 🗣 (u: khaxm'thaau'khaxm'bin) 崁頭崁面 [wt][mo] [d#]

頭臉都覆蓋住 。 比喻呆頭呆腦 、 不知死活 。

🗣 m-zaisie 🗣 (u: m-zay'sie) 毋知死 [wt][mo] [d#]

不知死活 。 指不知事情輕重或利害程度 ， 而冒昧行事 。

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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.