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  • khìo37315712
  • To lift up the leg, as when climbing; to raise a limb.
cîah pá bô̤ sṳ̄, khìo khí kha à ôiⁿ ūe;
after eating he has nothing to do but put his feet up and talk idly.
lṳ́ kâi kha khìo-phû úa thóiⁿ;
lift up your foot and let me look at it.
i kâi kha-kṳn tau kàu bŏi khìo-phû;
the cords of his legs are so stiff that he cannot raise his feet.
cêk ciah kha khìo-phû, cêk ciah kha tó̤ chĭang;
lift one foot, and jump along on the other.
lṳ́ kâi kha m̄ tîeh khìo-phû i cìaⁿ hó̤ ĭa;
why don't you bend up your legs so that he can carry you on his back?
i kâi chíu hŵn-lío ŏi khìo-phû;
he can still raise his hands.
lṳ́ kâi cîh khìo-phû; cîh tìe khìo;
raise your tongue.
chùi-lîm-phûe khìo-khí lâi;
pursed up his lips.
  • khìo489678
  • Bullion; paper money.
khìo-thâu-si;
a small ingot with a coil on its top.
khìo-thau-si cang;
a style of coiffure, resembling an ingot with a coil on its top.
  • khîo37412412
  • Elevated; high; to raise the head.
khîo síu phàng mō̤ⁿ;
raise the head and gaze attent.
cí kâi nâng tŏ̤ i kò̤ sǹg-cò̤ khîo-chó̤, tŏ̤ cí-kò̤ cū sǹg būe tîeh;
there they consider this man eminent, here we have not yet considered him.
pí cèng nâng ío chut tho̤h kâi kìe-cò̤ khîo-chó̤;
those who excel others are called eminent.

khiok

  • khiok458732
  • Distorted; scheming; false; bent.
i kâi lí khiok;
his doctrine is perverted.
hun-pĭen khiok tît;
discriminate between the crooked and the straight.
sĭ hui, khiok tît, ĕ-jît cū mêng-pêh;
hereafter you will understand what is so and what is not so, what is wrong and what is right.
i khî tang pit ŭ úi-khiok;
they certainly have some scheme on hand.
khut khiok;
pressed down so as to be awry.
khut-khut khiok-khiok;
meandering; distorted.
  • khiok430105
  • To prevail over; subduing.
úa cêng tòa piaⁿ khṳ̀ khiok-hôk ku-ā kâi tī-hng;
I have lead troops and recaptured several places.
hṳ́ kâi sîaⁿ sĭ khí-thâu-ē khiok-hôk kâi, bô̤ sĭm-mih peh sèⁿ hùe;
that city is newly recovered, and there are but few of the people in it.
khiok-ke;
thrifty.


khíong

  • khíong422616
  • Apprehensive; anxious; if it should be; doubtful whether.
khíong-ùi i bô̤ lâi;
anxious lest he fail to come.
i khíong-phàⁿ úa àiⁿ phah i;
he fears I am going to give him a whipping.
i cò̤ sṳ̄ to sĭ hûang-hûang khíong-khíong, kiaⁿ-ùi cò̤ tāⁿ;
she does things in a flurry, fearful that she will do them wrongly.
i thiaⁿ tîeh sim lăi cū kiaⁿ-khíong;
when he heard it he was frightened.
thoíⁿ tîeh i cū khíong-kŭ;
when he saw it he was afraid.
  • khîong42011610
  • Impoverished; poor; at one's wit's end; exhausted; to the last degree.
i sĭ phìn-khîong kâi nâng;
he is a very poor man.
i tŏ̤ khîong-khó kâi sî-hāu to bô̤ nâng pat i;
when he was needy and suffering no one knew him.
i cí-hûe khîong kêk;
he is now in the utmost poverty.
khî bī bô̤ khîong;
its flavor is perpetual.
bô̤ khîong-cĭn;
inexhaustible.
khîong kìu tŏ̤-lí;
an exhaustive exposition of the doctrine.
lṳ́ tîeh khîong thóiⁿ i kâi lí sĭ cìeⁿ-seⁿ a m̄ sĭ;
you must make a thorough examination whether its principle is thus.
i tŏ̤ khîong-thû kâi sî-hāu, i cêng kìu-cì i;
when he was in extremity, he rescued him.
cí kâi tŏ̤-lí cū khîong m̄ chut;
cannot search to the botton of this principle.
khîong-khùn;
utterly exhausted.
suaⁿ khîong, cúi cĭn, gî bô̤ lō;
headed off on all sides, and with no path open anywhere.
khîong hieⁿ phiah jíang kâi tī-hng;
the remotest village and most unfrequented place.
khîong khò, môk tui;
do not follow a thief to bay.
  • khîong4211426
  • A cricket which sings in the walls; a species of locust.
jît cē àm hâng-khîong cū ki-ki-kìe;
at dusk, the crickets chirp.

khip

  • khip3941204
  • A grade; a degree in office.
i sĭ sĭm-mih pín khip?
Of what grade is he?
kia ke saⁿ khip;
promoted three grades.
cêk khip cêk khip khuaⁿ-khuaⁿ seng;
gradually advanced a grade at a time.
in-ûi gō kong sṳ̄ kàng khip;
degraded on account of mistakes in public business.
kàng khip, thîo ēng;
degrade in rank and send elsewhere for use.
  • khip203304
  • To inhale.
khip i kâi khì;
breathe its exhalations.
khip cêk kâi khùi tn̂g-tn̂g;
draw