kuai

  • kuai47047
  • Perverse; sulky; cunning; crafty.
i kâi nâng kuai-khá căi;
he is very wily.
sòi-sòi cū kuai-kuai khá-khá;
though very young he is very artful.
cí kâi a-noⁿ-kíaⁿ khah kuai-ciang;
this child is too intractable.
úa thóiⁿ-tîeh khah kuai;
he appears to me to be too cross grained.
i pí pât nâng lêng-ūaⁿ kuai;
he is more difficult to get along with than other people.
sĭm sĭ kuai-khío;
is very cunning.
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  • A species of sunfish, of which it is said that “it can inflate its belly and float; it has no gills or gall-bladder, and when it hits against any- thing it makes a noise.”
kuai hṳ̂;
the sunfish.
kuai pó;
dried sunfish.
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  • A staff for old men.
kúai-cĭang;
a cane.
phah sang kúai;
go on crutches.
kṳ̂ kúai-cĭang;
leans on a crutch.
kúai-thûi;
a staff.
chut jîp tîeh kṳ̂ kúai-thûi;
wherever she goes has to lean on a staff.
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  • Halt, lame, crippled.
kúai-kha;
lame of leg.
kúai-kha kúai chíu;
crippled in both feet and hands.
kîaⁿ khṳ̀ kúai-a-kúai;
walks very lamely; limps as he goes.
kúai-kha hùe, cheⁿ-mêⁿ hùe;
the halt and the blind.
  • kúai470645
  • To deceive; to swindle; to decoy; to entrap.
kúai-phìen nâng;
to swindle people.
kúai-tô̤ nâng kâi cṳ-nîe;
seduce other men's wives.
a-noⁿ-kíaⁿ khṳt i kúai-phìen khù bōi;
children were decoyed away and sold by him.
kang kúai tău tô̤ kâi cŭe-hŭam;
the crime of kidnapping.
kúai bōi tṳ-kíaⁿ;
entrap and sell coolies.
  • kùai470615
  • To blame; to find fault with; to deem strange; strange; marvellous; portentous; supernatural.
kùai-ĭ kâi sṳ̄;
a very surprising thing.
sĭm sĭ khî-kùai;
it is exceedingly queer.
i kâi nâng īeⁿ seⁿ lâi khî-khî kùai-kùai;
he has a very weird appearance.
kùai mûeh;
an apparition; a monster.
ìo-ciaⁿ, kúi-kùai;
elves and spooks.
kú nî cū sêng cò̤ ciaⁿ-kùai;
after a lapse of many years, becomes a goblin.
i cò̤-nî tin-tò̤ lâi kùai lṳ́?
Why does he turn about and blame you?
lṳ́ màiⁿ kùai;
do not deem it surprising.
úa bô̤ kùai lṳ́;
I do not find fault with you therefor.
i kùai i bô̤ pât sṳ̄, kùai kìe sĭ i m̄ thiaⁿ i kâi ūe;
she does not find fault with him for anything else, but blames him simply for not heeding what she says.
kùai put tit i m̄ hàuⁿ;
it is not surprising that he is unwilling.
kùai tăng kâi sṳ̄;
it passes belief; it is incredibly strange.
bô̤ kùai i cìeⁿ-seⁿ cò̤;
I do not blame him for doing so.
môk kùai i cìeⁿ-seⁿ;
it is no fault of his that he is thus.
  • kùai485913
  • One who acts as broker; to keep up or settle the price of goods.
chĭ kùai;
one who studies the markets, and acts as agent in sales; a bull or a bear in the stock market.
cí pang chĭ-kùai hùe, sim pí nâng to m̄ tâng;
these stock brokers have not hearts like other people.
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  • To paint; to draw; to limn.
kùai cêk pak sìeⁿ;
paint a portrait.
kùai tī-tô;
draw a map.
kùai tô;
to draw a plan.
kùai tieⁿ suaⁿ tô;
sketch a landscape.