Chí-beh

Only have to; just by; only by [verb]-ing

Related (and more common): chí-iàu

 

Chí-beh khéng phah-piàⁿ, mā ē chhut-thâu-thiⁿ.

If you are only willing to work hard, you will become successful.

 

Tāi-sêng Hu̍t-kàu chông-pài hu̍t-siōng, jīn-ûi bô-it-tēng ài chhut-ke, chí-beh sim-lāi ū hu̍t, chóng-ū 1-kang kāng-khóan mā-ē chiâⁿ-chòe hu̍t.

In Mahayana Buddhism there is worship of statues of the Buddha, as well as the belief that a person doesn’t necessarily have to leave his family (and join a monastary), but only needs to have the Buddha in his heart, and there will come a day when he will in the same way become a Buddha.

http://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu%CC%8Dt-k%C3%A0u

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