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KʽOK KONG KʽONG KU

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The channel of a stream; a valley; a cavern.
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Coarse hempen cloth.
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Grain of all sorts; real; good; substantial; wealthy.

Kʽok.

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Manacles; a collar for the neck; correct conduct.
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Generous wine; hard hearted, as from wine; cruel.
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A leather mark to shoot at; a water fowl; goose.
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A hurried enunciation; to give information.
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To weep and cry aloud.
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A cup; a quiver; a small vessel; thin; a bludgeon; to rush against; trembling.

Kong.

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Meritorious service; merit; praise; service; work.
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To attack; assault; rouse; apply closely to; put in order.
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Public; not selfish; just; a title of nobility; male.
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A poisonous insect; a medicine made of the centipede.
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Tribute; offerings to one's services; merit; to offer.

Kʽong.

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The firmament; great; wide; vacant; exhausted; poor; clearness of mind; abstraction.
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Ignorant; rude; hurry; urgent; weary.
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Unable to attain one's purpose; dissatisfied; ignorant; simple.
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Empty within; filled with wind; vain; ostentatious.
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An orifice; aperture; vacuum; great; very; high.
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To draw or pull with the hand; to hold back; strike.

Ku.

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Labor; travail; distress; fatigue.
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To hook or take; to sweep or draw together.
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Dried meat; hams.
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A colt; fine young horse.
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To boil; to heat; genial warmth; kind; benevolent.
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A tortoise.
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Bones of the knee; loins and shoulder.
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Fault; crime; guilt; to monopolize.
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All; together; prepared.
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Old; not new; a long time; formerly.
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To buy and sell; a merchant.
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A long time.