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HTB (cache) (6)

ban-puttek'ie [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]]  [p.]

be forced to do it; to have no alternative; the last resort

萬不得已

ciorngkvoar puttek [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]]  [p.]

One single person is no match for a crowd

眾寡不敵

kvoar puttek cioxng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]]  [p.]

the few cannot withstand the many; a single individual cannot withstand the multitude; to be overpowered by the enemy's larger number; You can't beat city hall

寡不敵眾

ky puttek sit [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]]  [p.]

when one is hungry; one is not particular about what he is going to eat (both literally and figuratively)

飢不擇食

puttek [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]]  [p.]

to fight against hopeless odds; no match for; not equal to

不敵

puttek'ie [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]]  [p.]

DFT (1)

🗣 puttek'ie 🗣 (u: pud'teg'ie pud'tid'ie ⬆︎ ) 不得已 [wt][mo][[MK]] [d#]

無可奈何 、 不得不如此 。

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External Dictionaries in Conventional Romanizations *

• (u) pud tek = put4-tik8 [[DFT]] [[MK]] [[TC]] [[Lim19]] [[IT講]] [[CT]][CT]

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.