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  • kiah378649
  • To bring to mind; to make known; to borrow.
kiah toaⁿ;
a promissory note.
kiah hăng;
debts; liabilities.
kiah sìo;
borrowed moneys.
ŭ kiah hío chut lâi a būe?
Has the list of successful candidates been published yet?
tó̤ hṳ́-kò̤ kiah ŭ kîeh cōi ngṳ̂n?
How much money did he get there ?
  • kiah7086412
  • To open up, or out; to spread or distribute around; to lift; to separate by a jerk.
kiah khui;
to lift apart; to thrust aside; to open up as to the air or to the light.
kiah khui pò-lîam cū thóiⁿ-kìⁿ;
lifted the curtain and saw it.
cúa kiah khui khṳt i lā;
lift the bundles of paper out and spread them so that they will air.
kiah tōa lâk cū kiah tit khui;
lift with force and then you can lift them apart.
  • kîah392447
  • A patten; a wooden shoe or clog, used in rainy weather.
chēng sang kâi âng phûe kîah;
wear a pair of pattens with red upper leathers.
khôk-khôk-kìe, chēng sang châ-thâu kîah cū lâi;
came clamping along in a pair of wooden clogs.
cang kîah;
pattens made from the fiber of the coir palm.
úai cîh kiah kha;
broke the heel off the patten by stepping on the side of the foot.
ciap kîah kha;
put a new sipport under the patten.
tèng kîah phò;
a shop when clogs are made.
kîah kha ìn lío kâi ūi kâi ūi;
tracks made with muddy pattens.
thô téng kâi kîah ūi kâi kîah ūi;
tracks made with pattens on the mud.
kîah-kíaⁿ khà cheng-khih, cò̤ i khṳ̀;
shook the dust off his pattens and went.


kiak

  • kiak3778512
  • Clean, free from defilement.
sói kàu kiak-kiak pêh;
wash it perfectly white.
cêk koiⁿ sìu-sîp kàu kiak-cṳ̀;
the whole place is made perfectly clean.
i cheng-khih-sìeⁿ căi, thong sin kâi i-hôk nĕ kiak-kiak;
she is very cleanly, and all the clothes she has on are spotlessly clean.


kiam

  • kiam382128
  • Along with; together with in addition to; equally.
keng kiam thiⁿ-sî jûah;
besides all that, the weather is very hot.
kiam ŭ pât īeⁿ sṳ̄ cò̤;
and besides I have something else to do.
sie kiam kài kâi tī-hng;
adjacent ground.
tī-hng sie kiam kài;
the two lots have the same boundary.
châi mâuⁿ kiam chŵn;
the toute ensemble; the mind, manners, and person.
kiam niap tîe-ciu hú sṳ̄;
manages the Tie Ciu Department
in addition.
kiam lí îeⁿ bŭ;
manages foreign affairs besides.
i kiam ŏi cò̤ cí īeⁿ sṳ̄;
he can also add this to the other things which he does.
kiam ke cêk hâng khang-khùe;
attends to the work of another warehouse also.
nŏ nâng kiam ēng;
the two both use it.
i khí kó̤ lío, ŭ kiam sía a bô̤?
After he had made the rough draft, did he write out a fair copy besides?
  • kíam3857513
  • To assort; to examine.
m̄ cai kíam-tiám khṳ̀;
did not think to look them over carefully and mark

them.

lṳ́ tîeh sòi sim kíam-tíam;
you must label them carefully.
phìa cêk ūi tăi-chîu tó̤ kàm-tok sio-kíam;
depute a nobleman to oversee the search of the persons of the candidates for admission to the examinations.
chê-kíam;
to examine.
  • kíam383159
  • To diminish; to lessen; to abbreviate; to make less do; to take away a part.
kè-cíⁿ bô̤ kíam;
no abatement in the price.
kíam kè thŵn mîaⁿ;
sell at a reduced price in order to render it popular.
i àiⁿ kíam i kâi sìo búe, i li m̄ hàuⁿ;
he wants him to throw off the balance of the account, but he will not.
ngĕ-ngĕ kíam i kâi;
forcibly insisted on an abatement.
thó̤ kíam i kâi sĭu ngŵn;
ask him to let him have it for less than it cost.
u kíam a bô̤?
Did he take off anything from the price?
cài kíam cē;
take off a little more.
bò̤ ke bô̤ kíam;
neither more nor less.
cìeⁿ-se ŭ ke bô̤ kíam;
there may be increase but not diminution.
hó̤ kíam mē?
Can you not sell it a little cheaper?
lṳ́ sǹg kíam cē, úa cò̤ cē kio lṳ́ bói;
let me have it a little cheaper, then I will buy it from you at once.
m̄-hó̤ kíam;
cannot sell it for less.
kíam cêk téng ngí cŭe;
abate somewhat from the legal punishment.
i m̄ khéng kíam;
he would abate nothing.
cí kheng ío ke, cí kheng ío kíam;
this basket has more, and that one has less.
kíam cêk ûe ciⁿ khṳt lṳ́;
let you have it at half the price.
khṳt i kíam tīo ho̤h cōi ngṳ̤̂n;
had a rather large sum of money taken off by him.
cìeⁿ-soⁿ ŏi khah kíam a bŏi?
Have I retrenched too much ?
mn̂g-khí cìah ío kíam, cí hûe cū tó khùn;
ate less than usual this morning, and am now hungry.
meⁿ kíam cho̤h;
take some off with the hand.
tàⁿ kíam tōa-bó̤-mûeh ūe;
contracted his speech very much.
kîaⁿ tùi cí kò̤, kîaⁿ kíam cêk phò lō;
by going this way, will diminish the length of the journey by a league.
cìeⁿ-seⁿ kiam-kíam to m̄ kíam;
pinching and scrimping thus does not diminish it a particle.
lṳ́ kíam i kúi hùe?
How much younger are