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  • lîp5381170
  • Poised; set, established, fixed; upright; to rear, to found, to institute; to be settled in principle; to succeed to or to seat one's self on the throne in place of the legitimate heir; to appoint; to agree on; to settle terms, as when drawing up a contract; to fix; reached; arrived, as the seasons; to place in order, to arrange; just now, soon, presently, at the time of.
lîp ieh;
make a compact.
lîp khòi;
settle the terms of a contract; make a deed.
lîp phŏ;
open an account.
lîp tīaⁿ tîeh lío;
it is wholly settled upon.
chàng-lîp cṳ-īⁿ;
found a college.
lîp i cò̤ ûang;
made him king.
kĭen kong, lîp ngîap;
gain a position for one's self; get fame and wealth.
lîp ău sṳ̂;
adopt an heir.
íⁿ-keng nî tōa, sêng lîp lío;
already grown up and established in life.
ko lîp, bô̤ nâng pang-cŏ̤;
stand alone and uncountenanced; having no backer.
i nŏ̤ nâng sì put líang lîp;
they cannot both maintain themselves in position.
lîp kìⁿ kong-hāu;
at once see the efficacy.
lîp tīaⁿ kha-kṳn;
he has agreed to stay.
lîp sim lîp ì;
has his mind made up; has a settled purpose.
i kâi lîp sim hó̤;
his resolve is good.
lîp-khek cū àiⁿ;
want it instantly.


lit

  • lît908647
  • Stretched at full length.
lît-tît lît-tît;
stretched stiffly at full length.
khĭa pàng kò̤ lît-lît tît-tît;
standing stiff and upright.
khah lît-tît, bô̤ mih kè-sì;
two straight up and down, with nothing to break the stiffness.
ût pàng kò̤ lît-lît tît-tît;
lying at full length.


liu

  • liu84415713
  • To slip or slide on the feet.
lō li kût, kîaⁿ lío liu pûah lô̤h khṳ̀;
the road was slippery, and he slipped and fell when walking.
i liu pûah lô̤h khṳ̀ tǹg tîeh ie-ciah-kut;
he slipped down and struck upon the end of his spine.
liu-pûah kàu cêk sin cĕng-cĕng thô;
slipped and fell down, thereby covering himself all over with mud.
cĕ liu cū tǹg cŏ̤ lô̤h khṳ̀;
slipped up, and sat down with a thud.
kha tâh hó̤-hó̤ bŏi liu;
set your feet down carefully and then you will not slip.
kha tîeh liu;
his foot slipped.
  • liu8448513
  • Slippery and miry.
liu-liu kût;
muddy and slippery.
hŏ lô̤h lío, cêk lō liu-liu-kût;
since the rain, the road is very slippery.
tî-kîⁿ kò̤ kût-liu-liu, tîeh kîaⁿ hó̤-hó̤;
the margin of the pool is very slippery, you must step carefully.

  • líu328202
  • To hook out, as by drawing a thing diagonally through a small aperture.
cang chíu lô̤h khṳ̀ khang tói kò̤ líu chut lâi;
put your hand down into the hole and gather it up and lift it out.
chùi liôih, hṳ́ tòi li khuah, jw̆n líu, líu m̄ tîeh;
the mouth is narrow, and the space below is broad, howsoever I turn and twist it, I cannot get it out.
khîeh ki sî lô̤h pàng po̤-lî cun tói kò̤ líu, cìaⁿ líu tit chut;
take a spoon and put it down into the glass bottle, and then you can lift it out.
  • líu549755
  • The willow; slender, arched, crescent-like, in allusion to the shape of the leaf.
líu chīu;
willows.
hue âng, líu lêk;
the red of flowers and the green of willows; gay; resplendent; variegated.
líu hîeh bâi;
arched eye-brows.
îang líu ie;
a slender waist; lithe, graceful.
hue líu tī-hng; hue koi líu háng;
haunts of gaiety and dissipation.
khǹg-kòi i máiⁿ hàuⁿ hue-líu;
exhort him not to cherish a fondness for gaiety.
tâng-líu;
the aspen.
  • líu436186
  • To scoop out, to gouge out.
cí kò̤ châ tōiⁿ căi, hó̤ lâi líu cò̤ châ-khŭ;
this block of wood is very solid, it will be well to scoop it out and make a mortar of it.
i kò̤ kâi chù sĭ cang tek phùa lío, líu tīo mâk, lâi khàm cò̤ chù hĭa;
in making their houses, they take a bamboo, split it, dig out the knots, and lay on the half cylinders thus made, in the place of tiles.
líu tīo i kâi mâk-ciu;
gouge out his eyes.
líu i kâi sim-kuaⁿ chut lâi;
tear out his vitals.
  • líu5491208
  • A small skein, consisting of a few threads.
cêk líu jông;
a skein of floss.
cí líu sùaⁿ jîeh cōi tîo?
How many threads in this skein of silk?
nán kâi sùaⁿ kàu líu, tîo-siaⁿ sĭ tīaⁿ-tîeh kâi;
our thread is in skeins, having an exact number of threads in each.
  • lìu1056859
  • A whirlpool, a maelstrom.
i kâi cûn sái lô̤h lìu khṳ̀;
their vessel sailed into the whirlpool and went down.
lìu kâi cúi sĭ li-li ká-cn̄g lô̤h khṳ̀, só̤-íⁿ ŏi tit lô̤h bŏi tit chut;
the water of the whirlpool goes round and round and eddies downward, therefore there it no getting out of it.
  • lìu5508510
  • To slide; to glide.
lìu pûah lô̤h khṳ̀;
slipped down.
lìu-lìu kût;
glairy.
tâng hṳ́ téng khṳt i lìu kàu cí ĕ lô̤h lâi;
slid from up there down to this point at one stretch.