khíong edit

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  • Apprehensive; anxious; if it should be; doubtful whether.
khíong-ùi i bô̤ lâi;
anxious lest he fail to come.
i khíong-phàⁿ úa àiⁿ phah i;
he fears I am going to give him a whipping.
i cò̤ sṳ̄ to sĭ hûang-hûang khíong-khíong, kiaⁿ-ùi cò̤ tāⁿ;
she does things in a flurry, fearful that she will do them wrongly.
i thiaⁿ tîeh sim lăi cū kiaⁿ-khíong;
when he heard it he was frightened.
thoíⁿ tîeh i cū khíong-kŭ;
when he saw it he was afraid.
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  • Impoverished; poor; at one's wit's end; exhausted; to the last degree.
i sĭ phìn-khîong kâi nâng;
he is a very poor man.
i tŏ̤ khîong-khó kâi sî-hāu to bô̤ nâng pat i;
when he was needy and suffering no one knew him.
i cí-hûe khîong kêk;
he is now in the utmost poverty.
khî bī bô̤ khîong;
its flavor is perpetual.
bô̤ khîong-cĭn;
inexhaustible.
khîong kìu tŏ̤-lí;
an exhaustive exposition of the doctrine.
lṳ́ tîeh khîong thóiⁿ i kâi lí sĭ cìeⁿ-seⁿ a m̄ sĭ;
you must make a thorough examination whether its principle is thus.
i tŏ̤ khîong-thû kâi sî-hāu, i cêng kìu-cì i;
when he was in extremity, he rescued him.
cí kâi tŏ̤-lí cū khîong m̄ chut;
cannot search to the botton of this principle.
khîong-khùn;
utterly exhausted.
suaⁿ khîong, cúi cĭn, gî bô̤ lō;
headed off on all sides, and with no path open anywhere.
khîong hieⁿ phiah jíang kâi tī-hng;
the remotest village and most unfrequented place.
khîong khò, môk tui;
do not follow a thief to bay.
  • khîong4211426
  • A cricket which sings in the walls; a species of locust.
jît cē àm hâng-khîong cū ki-ki-kìe;
at dusk, the crickets chirp.