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HTB (cache) (11) thaau-a-zoa:

Gyn'aflaang u hvi bøo zhuix [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

A child should be seen and not heard

小孩子有耳無嘴; 囝仔人有耳無嘴

Nar u [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

How can there be...?

哪有?

tah'u [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

How could it be that..

哪有 ..

u [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

have; be present; exist; there is (are; were)

有

u axn khøfzaf^† [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

can be checked against the files

有案可查

u iong^† [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

be useful

有用; 有用途

u khahtngg [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

good deal more can be earned; profitable

較有益

u kiernseg^† [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

be farsighted; have an analytical mind

有見識

u loxiong [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

be useful

有用; 有用途

u sin'in^† [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

be pregnant

懷孕

DFT (98) thaau-10-zoa:

🗣 Borng thaxn khaq bøe saxn. 🗣 (u: Borng thaxn khaq be saxn. Borng thaxn khaq bøe saxn.) 罔趁較袂散。 [wt][mo] [d#]

多少賺一點 ， 才不致於陷入窮困 。 說明即使利潤非常小 ， 也應積極賺取 。

🗣 bøe 🗣 (u: boe be bøe) 未^p [wt][mo] (h,u) [d#]

1. (Adv) have not; not yet 2. (Part) used at the end of questions to ask if one has done something yet

沒 。 放在句末 ， 表示對某一個動作的疑問 。

🗣 bøe 🗣 (u: be boe bøe) 賣^p [wt][mo] (h,u) [d#]

出售貨品 、 財物或勞力以換取金錢 。

🗣 bøe 🗣 (u: be boe bøe) 袂^t [wt][mo] (h,u) [d#]

1. (Adv) (negative prefix); not; no; negation; negative word

不 。 否定詞 。

🗣 bøe arnsngx 🗣 (u: be boe axn'sngx bøe axn'sngx) 袂按算 [wt][mo] [d#]

無法事先預料或打算 。

🗣 bøe phvae 🗣 (u: be boe phvae bøe phvae) 袂歹 [wt][mo] [d#]

東西用不壞或人不兇 。

🗣 Bøe tee korng tee phafng, bøe hoef korng hoef aang. 🗣 (u: Be tee korng tee phafng, be hoef korng hoef aang. Bøe tee korng tee phafng, bøe hoef korng hoef aang.) 賣茶講茶芳，賣花講花紅。 [wt][mo] [d#]

賣茶葉的人強調自己賣的茶葉有多香 ； 賣花的人強調自己賣的花顏色有多麼的鮮豔 。 比喻為了要把自己的產品推銷出去 ， 生意人總會強調其產品具有什麼特色 ， 藉此吸引顧客的目光 。 比喻老王賣瓜 ， 自賣自誇 。

🗣 bøe-hah 🗣 (u: be boe hah bøe-hah) 袂合 [wt][mo] [d#]

合不來 。

🗣 bøe-kiernsiaux 🗣 (u: be boe'kiexn'siaux bøe-kiexn'siaux) 袂見笑 [wt][mo] [d#]

不要臉 、 不懂得羞恥 。

🗣 bøe-siusvoaf 🗣 (u: be boe'siw'svoaf bøe-siw'svoaf) 袂收山 [wt][mo] [d#]

無法收拾 。

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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.