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🗣 Chiefn sngx ban sngx, mxtat thvy cit oeh./Chiefn sngx ban sngx, mxtat thvy cit uih. 🗣 (u: Chiefn sngx ban sngx, m'tat thvy cit oeh/uih.) 千算萬算，毋值天一劃。 [wt][mo] [d#]

形容人百般算計仍敵不過老天爺的輕輕一筆 ， 把之前的努力都一筆勾銷 。 說明人再如何汲汲營營算計 ， 遇見天災或意外 ， 還是不敵自然的力量 。 也指人的經營算計不敵命運的捉弄 。

🗣 Chiefn too ban too, m tadtid hoafn zhaan thoo. 🗣 (u: Chiefn too ban too, m tat'tid hoafn zhaan thoo.) 千途萬途，毋值得翻田塗。 [wt][mo] [d#]

相較於各行各業 ， 耕田才是最務實的行業 。 反映早期重農輕商的思想 。

🗣 Chienkym bøea zhux, ban kym bøea zhuopvy. 🗣 (u: Chiefn'kym bea zhux, ban kym bea zhux'pvy. Chiefn'kym bøea zhux, ban kym bøea zhux'pvy.) 千金買厝，萬金買厝邊。 [wt][mo] [d#]

千金買房子 ， 萬金買好鄰居 。 形容敦親睦鄰之重要 ， 或指擇鄰而處 ， 好的鄰居對居住品質的影響很大 。

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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.