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- mûeh kè ti ngan;
- the prices of articles vary.
- cì-khì ngan-ngan;
- self possessed.
- tàⁿ ūe màiⁿ khah kek ngan;
- in speaking do not say what offends one's self-love.
- i kâi ngán-sîn hó̤;
- the expression of his eye is good.
- ŭ ngán bô̤ cū;
- he has eyes without lenses; he is not discriminating as to the merits of persons.
- i hó̤ ngán lâk;
- he judges things at a glance.
- thóiⁿ i m̄ tŏ̤ ngán kài;
- kept no impression of him in mind.
- ngán côiⁿ ŭ sṳ̄ mē?
- Have you any immediate business?
- tèng pá-ngán;
- stand the next to the senior wrangler in the cìn-sṳ̆ examination.
- i cêk sang hó̤ ngán-mâk;
- he has a fine pair of eyes.
- cūaⁿ jîn bô̤ kùi ngán;
- low people have not valuable eyes.
- khṳ̀ tàu cêk kâi sìⁿ ngán;
- go and get a pivot put in the end of the fan.
- ka-to̤ ngán khah siap, ēng îu buah i kût cē;
- the pivot of the shears is so tight that the blades move with much friction, take some oil and oil it.
- chŵn cîah cêk sang bâi ngán;
- his beauty lies wholly in his eyes.
- i nŏ̤ nâng bâi lâi ngán khṳ̀;
- the two were exchanging meaning glances.
- sang ngán hue-lêng;
- a pheasant's feather with two eyes on it.
- khóng-chieh kâi mô̤ⁿ ŭ ngán;
- peacocks' feathers have eyes.
- hó̤ ngán tói;
- strong sharp eyes.
- cìⁿ-ngán-khang;
- openings in the battlement of a wall, for archers to shoot through.
- ngàn chìu cúi;
- to temper by plunging in cold water.
- cí īeⁿ kǹg sĭ khṳ̀ ngàn chim kheⁿ kâi kheⁿ cúi;
- this sort of steel is tempered in the water of a deep pit.
- līen lío khîeh khṳ̀ ngàn cúi, līen lío khîeh khṳ̀ ngàn cúi, ngàn jú ke hûe jú hó̤;
- heat it and plunge it into water, repeating the process, the more times the better.
- ngàn kàu ŭ ku-ā kâi cńg-kah ūi;
- pinched so as to leave the prints of the nails.
- lṳ́ kio úa lìam hó̤-hó̤, màiⁿ ngàn tîeh;
- pinch me softly, and not so hard as to hurt.
- úa hàm i lâi kio úa tĕⁿ pùe-kṳn, kŭa saⁿ khṳt i ngàn phùa khṳ̀;
- I asked him to come and gently pinch the sinews of my back for me, and he pinched so hard as to tear holes in my tunic.
- lā ngân cē;
- let it cool off a little.
- i kâi chíu ki-ki ngân;
- her hands are cold as ice.
- mông tîeh kha ngân, chíu ngân;
- his extremities are cold to the touch.
- thiⁿ-sî ngân;
- the weather is cold.
- 言ngân10831490
- A word; a sentence; a remark; an assertion; a phrase; speech, talk, sayings; report, rumor; an order; to discourse, to say, to address, to talk, to express an opinion.
- nŏ̤ nâng cŏ̤ tó̤ ngân-thâm ngí-lŭn;
- two persons sat chatting together.
- ngân-gṳ́;
- words, talk.
- sit ngân;
- a slip of the tongue.
- hue ngân, khá gṳ́;
- exaggeration, hyperbole.
- chéⁿ sì kâi lîang ngân;
- a useful and moral allegory.
- m̄ kẃn nâng ngân sĭ, ngân hui;
- pay no attention to people's gossip.
- gṳ̄-sṳ́ sĭ ngân-kuaⁿ;
- censors are officials whose duty it is to speak.
- có̤-sak ngân lō;
- interrupt the conversation.
- ngân hĕng m̄ hṳuû;
- his words and actions do not correspond.
- cêk ngân cū khó̤-íⁿ lío-kak;
- one word may bring it to an end.
- cău ngân cău gṳ́;
- a complete fabrication.
- lêng cai i ngân gūa kâi ì-sṳ̀;
- can understand the implied meaning.
- cêk ngân lâng cĭn;
- it cannot be told in a word.
- khá ngûn;
- smooth talk.
- cía sĭ sĭm ngân khî coi cū sĭ, m̄ sĭ sît kâi;
- this is setting things at their very highest figure, it is not really thus.
- bô̤ hṳ ngân;
- no empty talk.
- thiaⁿ lú kaî kim ngân;
- heed your valueable suggestions.
- màiⁿ to̤ ngân;
- do not have so much talk about it.
- màiⁿ thiaⁿ i ngân tn̂g ngân tó̤;
- pay no heed to what he says, whether he says much or little.
- pĕng bô̤ ngân gṳ́; put ngân put gṳ́; say nothing at all.
- 雁ngăn10891724
- A wild goose, white and smaller than the common goose; its annual flight determines the seasons.
- hông ngăn lâi;
- when the wild geese return.
- ŏi sīa pue ngăn;
- can hit a wild goose on the wing.