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tàⁿ mêng-pêh;

state clearly.
mêng-mêng pêh-pêh kâi tŏ̤-li;
a doctrine that is plain.
tàⁿ chut lâi kuang-mêng cìaⁿ-tăi;
stated in a clear and straight forward way.
mêng-mêng to̤ ŭ;
it is evidently so.
úa mêng-mêng thóiⁿ-kìⁿ;
I saw it plainly.
sǹg hun-mêng;
make a distinct reckoning.
kau-mêng;
clear headed.
chong-mêng;
quick of apprehension.
thiaⁿ m̄ mêng;
did not hear distinctly.
mêng-jît;
tomorrow.
  • mêng5981963
  • The cry of a bird or animals; to call out; to sound a sonorous note.
mêng wn;
to cry out for redress.
khṳ̀ kuaⁿ-hú kò̤ mêng wn;
go to the ofificials and proclaim one’s wrongs.
kuaⁿ cē chut gê-mn̂g cū mêng lô̤, pàng phàu;
as soon as the magistrate left the court, they sounded the gong, and fired a canon.
koi mêng kâi sî-hāu;
at cock’s crow.
úa ŭ kâi cṳ̆-mêng-ceng;
I have an alarm clock.
ko cíeⁿ lâng mêng;
you can’t clap with one hand.
  • mêng600148
  • Dim; obscure; cavernous recesses; night-like; dismal; the unseen world; hades.
mêng-mêng;
the under world.
mêng-mêng cṳ tang cṳ̌ ŭ cú-cái;
sheol even has its lord.
hiuⁿ-mêng kâi sṳ̄ lâng cai;
the condition of things in hades is difficult to discover.
  • mêng5791088
  • A solemn declaration before the gods.
i kio i sĭ mêng hiaⁿ-tĭ;
they are sworn brothers.
nŏ̤ nâng sĭ mêng kâi;
the two are leagued by oath.
tâng soiⁿ kúi nâng pài mêng;
at the time when several of us took the oath.
tŏ̤ sîn mīn côiⁿ mêng-sī kùe kâi;
what has been sworn to before the gods.
  • mêng5991676
  • To engrave on metal or stone in order to remember; to record for the purpose of preserving; to inscribe on the memory.
mêng seng;
an imperial inscription given to worthy people.
mŏ̤ⁿ-cì-mêng;
an engraved epitaph.
mêng-kám tŏ̤ sim;
engraven on the heart.
  • mêng60010910
  • To close the eyes in death.
kam sim mêng mâk;
would cheerfully close the eyes upon this world.
  • 螟蛉mêng-lêng600
  • A caterpillar which the solitary wasp is said to adopt and bring up as its own offspring.
mêng-lêng kâi kíaⁿ;
an adopted child.

  • mĕng601305
  • To order, to command, to charge; directions; requirements; behests; decrees.
cun mĕng;
obey orders.
sŭn i kâi mĕng kîaⁿ;
went according to his commands.
cí kâi kuaⁿ kâi mĕng-lĕng ngîam căi;
this officer’s orders are very strict.
líang ke kak uaⁿ thien mĕng;
let each do his duty in the sphere where heaven has placed him.
thieng mĕng;
fate; heaven's decree.
hŏng mĕng;
receive orders.
it-it jŭ mĕng;
everything has been done according to orders.
  • mĕng580395
  • Great; eminent; senior; the first month of a season.
mĕng-cṳ́;
the sage, Mencius.
cêk khùi saⁿ kâi gûeh hun cò̤ mĕng, tŏng, kùi;
the three months in each quarter are distinguished as the first second and third of a trine series.
mĕng chun, mĕng hē, mĕng chiu, mĕng tang;
the first month of spring, of summer, of autumn, and of winter.


miⁿ

  • miⁿ60010910
  • Closed eyes; eyes shut so as not to perceive.
mâk hâp miⁿ-miⁿ, tīam-tīam gût;
shut the eyes tightly, and sleep soundly.
i sí lío mâk hâp m̄ miⁿ;
after he was dead, his eyes would not remain closed.
  • míⁿ59117511
  • Not; without.
i míⁿ sṳ̄ put ûi, i àiⁿ ŭ lĭ tīaⁿ-tīaⁿ;
there is no sort of business he will not do, he cares only for profit.
thiⁿ mĕng míⁿ sîeⁿ;
the decrees of heaven are not unvarying.
  • mîⁿ594758
  • The cotton plant.
mîⁿ hue;
raw cotton.
khṳ̀ mâh-mîⁿ chīu kha kò̤ tô̤h mâh-mîⁿ, lâi jîp tĭen;
go under the cotton tree and gather some cotton to stuff a cushion with.
mîⁿ phŭe;
a thick cotton coverlet.
phah phŭe mîⁿ;
to bow-string cotton for coverlets.
sĭang-hái mîⁿ;
Shanghai cotton.
îeⁿ mîⁿ;
foreign cotton.
mîⁿ tō̤;
a cotton-bale.
mîⁿ se;
cotton yarn.
pháng mîⁿ-seⁿ kâi chia;
a spinning-wheel.
  • mîⁿ5891626
  • To delude; to bewitch; to fascinate; infatuated; blinded; stupefied; besotted.
pun kúi mîⁿ tîeh;
possessed by a demon.
hun mîⁿ; hun-hun mîⁿ-mîⁿ;
bewildered; infatuated; confused.
pun i mîⁿ khṳ̀;
bewitched by her.
mîⁿ-sit lō-thû;
lost his way.
i cong-kú cip mîⁿ, m̄ ngŏ̤;
he holds persistently to that which possesses him, and will not shake it off; he is stolidly and willfully dull.
khṳt mîⁿ-hun kúi khang khṳ̀ sak thô;
was lead away by a demon