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trowsers are soiled by long wearing, change and wash them.

cí kâi khò cêng chĭeⁿ khò-thâu a bŏi?
Have these trowsers had the waistband put on?
khò-thâu tòa;
a girdle worn to keep the trowsers in place.
khò-thâu lêng;
a girdle attached to trowsers.
  • khò436537
  • A storehouse, arsenal, magazine, or depot.
ngṳ̂n khò;
a treasury.
khò pâng;
a counting room.
chng-khò khang-hṳ;
the granaries are empty.
thô khò;
go-downs.
sì khò chŵn cṳ;
a magazine of useful knowledge; a thesaurus.
ngṳ̂n hwt khṳ̀ tíu khò;
he has put his money into the bank.
gṳ̄ khò;
the imperial treasury.
kun-khì khò;
an armory.
cì-khì khò;
a storehouse for sacrificial vessels.
húe-îeh khò;
a powder magazine.
cí pang cṳ khṳt hûang-tì tui jîp khò khṳ̀;
this set of books has been suppressed by order of the emperor.
  • khò33214011
  • Cardamom and other spicy seeds.
tāu khò; nêk tāu-khò;
nutmegs.
cháu tāi-khò;
round cardamoms.
pêh tāu-khò;
white cardamoms.
  • 𡨥khò332408
  • Robbers; banditti.
cía sǹg sĭ cháu-khò;
this one may be considered a Robin Hood.
lîu-khò;
an outlaw.
hái-khò;
pirates.
hái-khò cū sĭ hái-châk;
pirates are sea-robbers.
  • khò3721676
  • The pivot on which a door turns.
thih kha-khò tîeh kah mn̂g-kha-khŭ;
the iron pivot on which the door swings must fit the socket in the door still.

khoi

  • khoi3418510
  • A river; a creek; a rivulet.
khoi-hô̤;
rivers.
khoi kàu cí-kò̤ pun cò̤ nŏ̤ a;
the stream here branches off into two forks.
khoi cúi tĭⁿ, im kàu bô̤ khoi sua-pà;
when the river rises the sand banks are wholly submerges.
i tŏ̤ khoi-kîⁿ tìeⁿ hṳ̂, ngŏ̤ tîeh kâi nâng khṳ̀ thìo khoi, khṳt i kìu tîeh;
he was on the margin of the river fishing with hook and line, when a man came along and jumped into the river, and was rescued by him.
khoi chíen căi;
the stream is very shallow.
khoi cúi jîeh chim?
How deep is the river?
i ŏi siu kùe khoi;
he can swim across the stream.
lṳ́ cîah tîeh khoi hṳ̂ hó̤ a hái hṳ̂ hó̤?
Which do you like best, the fish from fresh or from salt waters?
pun cêk tîo khoi-kíaⁿ tùi cìeⁿ pôiⁿ khṳ̀;
sends off a
small branch to flow on the hither side.
khoi cúi kháu;
the mouth of a stream.
cí tîo khoi kâi ngŵn-thâu sĭ tŏ̤ tī-kò̤?
Where does this river has its source?
i kâi cúi-sì sĭ lâi tùe khoi cìeⁿ pôiⁿ kò̤ lâi;
the strongest current flows along down this side the river.
cīeⁿ-sî kâi khoi bí lâi cōi căi;
there is lately a great quantity of inland rice coming in.
khoi khàm;
the banks of the river.
bī lô̤h khoi tói;
dive to the bottom of the river.
khoi tèng tó̤ phah sua pê;
dredging out a passage in the river.
cí-kò̤ kâi khoi-mīn ío khuah;
the river is wider here.
  • khoi884187
  • To shave; to trim and dress hair.
hàm kâi thì-thâu-kâi lâi khoi chiu;
call a barber to trim the beard.
khoi mâk-bâi;
trim the eyebrows.
màiⁿ tò̤ khoi, khoi lío jîet-thìaⁿ;
do not shave in a direction contrary to that in which the hair naturally grows, if you do it it will smart after being shaved.
khoi thâu-mô̤;
cut the hair.
  • khòi349376
  • A covenant; an agreement intended to be enduring; to join; adopted.
khòi kṳ̆;
documentary evidence.
âng khòi;
a stamped deed.
pêh khòi;
an unstamped deed.
sùe khò̤i;
the official fee for stamping a document.
châng khòi, chù khòi;
the deed for the field, and for the house.
la4i khṳ̀ i kò̤ sŭ khòi khuah cē;
going to his house to chat about what happened while we were separated.
khòi pĕ;
an adopted father.
in sie-khòi cò̤ cí-mūe;
they have entered into a compact with each other that they will be sisters.
i khòi i cò̤ a hiaⁿ;
he is bound to stand in the place of elder brother to him.
khòi kâi cáu-kíaⁿ;
a daughter adopted by a compact.
cía sĭ i kit khòi kâi hiaⁿ-tĭ;
this is his brother, adopted by a covenant. (Relationships thus entered into are frequently unwholesome ones).
  • khòi10802116
  • To gnaw.
i tó̤ khòi tṳ-kha-pê;
he is gnawing a pig's foot.
kâk kò̤ kut khṳt i khòi;
throw him a bone to gnaw.

khóiⁿ

  • 輕槌khóiⁿ102
  • To beat with a hammer lightly.
i tó̤ cò̤ khóiⁿ ôi-hue kâi khang-khùe;
he is employed in making the ornaments that are used upon silk shoes.
saⁿ-sì cho̤h chòi-thâu cò̤ cêk ē khîeh khṳ̀ khŭ kò̤ khóiⁿ;
take the three or four lumps of dough and pound them up together in the mortar.