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tāi-ì;
write out a synopsis.
cài sía kùe;
to rewrite.
sía-cúa-khò;
copy-book.
sía-kńg-kheh;
a sheet ruled in squares, used to guide a writer.
pek sía kâi;
written in baste.
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  • To relinquish; to part with; to give alms; to leave, to abandon, to renounce.
sía m̄ tit;
cannot part with it.
i hàuⁿ si-sía;
ho is fond of alms-giving.
châng-tī sía lô̤h am-īⁿ;
you may give your fields to a monastery, but you cannot thereafter beg a bowl of porridge from the priests.
sía tīo ke khṳ̀ cò̤ hûe-síeⁿ;
renounce domestic life, and become a priest.
àiⁿ sía tīo īu m̄ kam;
unwilling to abandon it.
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  • To lay aside, to relinquish, to leave, to put off, to vacate, t deliver over to.
sìa jīm;
resign office.
sìa ceh;
vacate a post.
hùe sìa tàⁿ; sìa tīo hùe;
to deliver cargo.
thiah sìa;
to take apart and carry off.
sìa kah;
cast off his armor.
sìa sṳ̄;
throw up an affair.
kau-sìa;
deliver over.
mûeh sìa tīo, m̄ káⁿ àiⁿ;
cast away the things, not daring to keep them.
thut-sìa m̄ lī;
cannot free himself from it.
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  • To purge; to flow off; to eliminate.
sìa tó;
purging.
sìa îeh;
cathartic medicines.
sìa-îu;
castor oil.
cí īeⁿ îeh sìa húe;
this medicine reduces inflammation.
cúi sìa;
watery stools.
cn̂g kâi sìa hùaⁿ kâi cúi;
the discharge consists solely of water.
sìa kúi chṳ̀;
purged several times.
thìaⁿ sìa; tó cē thìaⁿ cū àiⁿ sìa;
gripes with diarrhea.
īu thò, īu sìa;
vomiting and purging.
thò sìa cèng to̤ sĭ sî-lĕng pēⁿ;
bowel complaints are mostly ailments of the season.
hŵn-lío sìa bŏi cheng-chó̤;
it has not yet all flowed off.
bô̤ hía tó-lĭang cò̤ káⁿ cîah sìa îeh;
not being of full habit, how dare he take depleting medicines?
lîang sìa, jûah sìa, sîp sìa;
diarrhea arising from cold, from heat or from dampness.
kú sìa;
chronic diarrhea.
sìa lío cìaⁿ lâi pó;
first deplete and then strengthen.
pó sìa kiam kîaⁿ;
depletion and invigoration going on simultaneously.
sía kàu khah bô̤ tī;
purged until there is nothing to build upon.
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  • To remit punishment; to forgive, to pardon, to excuse; amnesty.
sìa i kâi cŭe;
overlook his fault.
thien sìa jît;
three days of the year when heaven forgives sins.
tăi sìa thiⁿ ĕ;
a general amnesty.
sìa-míen i;
forgive him.
huap bô̤ hó̤ sìa;
the law cannot remit punishment.
ngŏ̤ sìa tńg lâi;
meet a reprieve and return.
hŏng sìa míen phōiⁿ cŭe;
those who are pardoned need not be tried for crime.
sìa lāi; sìa cíe lāi cîⁿ;
let him off without exacting the interest on the debt.
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  • A cottage; a hospice; a booth; as a pronoun, my, used in speaking of one's junior relatives.
cí kò̤ lî hâng-sìa m̄ hn̆g;
this is not far from my poor abode.
sìa tĭ;
my younger brother.
a-sìa;
a junior relative; a respectful address to a junior in years.
hō̤ sìa;
cells in tho examination hall; they are numbered by the characters of the Millenary Classic.
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  • Depraved; vicious; deluding; illegal; heterodox; heretical; not sanctioned by law or custom; corrupting.
sîa tău;
erroneous doctrines.
sîa huap;
sorcery; unlawful tricks.
sîa sîn;
false deities whose worship is illegal, or whose ritual is subversive of morality.
sîa kúi;
evil spirits.
sîa sût;
black arts; philters, charms.
sîa khì;
malaria; possessed, mad, haunted.
khì sîa kui cìaⁿ;
forsake heresy and return to the right way.
huang sîa būe thò̤;
the bad effect of the wind has not yet been done away with.
sú sîa būe cheng;
the disturbance produced by heat is not yet allayed.
ŭ gūa sîa a bô̤?
Has he been exposed to any external influence which would produced disease?
sîa cìaⁿ hun m̄ cheng-chó̤;
those which tend to evil and those that tend to good, are not wholly divided.
sîa-mŭe;
an ogre.
kang-sîa kâi nâng;
a corrupt person.
sîa-îm kâi sṳ̄;
obscene practices.
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  • The musk deer.
cêk ciah sîa-káu;
a musk deer.
sîa-hieⁿ;
musk.
ngŵn sîa;
pure musk.
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  • At an angle; not in line; aslant.
gûeh sîa;
the moon is past the zenith.
jît sîa lío;
the sun is past the meridian.
pùaⁿ sîa gûeh;
the moon about half way between the zenith and the horizon.
sîa thóiⁿ;
look askance.
sîa mâk khṳ̀ thóiⁿ i;
cast a glance sidewise at him.
khi-sîa khi-sîa nē;
tilted over considerably.
sîa-sì sîa-sì nē;
toppling out of a vertical plane.
sîa-cío-mâk;
cross eyed.
jît sîa sai;
the sun is sinking in the west.
pàng sîaⁿ-sì cìaⁿ pàng tit lô̤h;
hold it aslant then you can put it in.
gûeh sîa jîp i theng lăi;
the low moon cast its beams into his window.
khṳt jît sîa tîeh;
touched by the slanting rays of the sun.