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SᵁNG SUT SWAI TÁ TʽÁ

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A species of quail.
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A grandchild; remote descendants; posterity.
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An animal of the monkey species.
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An evening meal; flour and water mixed; dressed food.
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To diminish; injure; spoil; lose; give up.
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Young shoots of bamboo fit to be eaten; a sprout; a tenon.
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To obey; yield; comply; prosperous; harmonizing.
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Humble; to select; a character used in divination.
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Complaisant; retiring; humble; yielding.
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A Chinese king who lived B.C.2100; sage; benevolent.
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The twinkling of an eye; an instant.

Sᵘng.

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Sour; debility; loitering.
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Hoar frost; frigid; cold; grave; stern.
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Widow; solitary.
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To mourn for the dead; mourning; to lose; to die.
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The mulberry tree.
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To play; sport; amuse; to trifle with; seduce.
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To reckon; to calculate; count; the abaccus.
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Garlic; a kind of small onions.

Sut.

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A path; a way of doing anything; a rule; an art; a scheme.
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To narrate; rehearse; to collect, arrange and publish.
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Compassion; to pity; to have a tender care for.
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A horary character for the ninth moon; also for from 7 to 9 o'clock P.M.
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The noise made by a saw; to saw.
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To lead or head an army; to lead.

Swai.

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A mango.

Tá.

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Reiterated; sound of dropping water; backbiting; rash.
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To tread upon; to beat on the ground with the foot.
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A thimble; to cover; add to; build up; to feel; rub; take passage; commit to.

Tʽá.

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He; she; it; him; her; that; other; another.
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To pile one above another.