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bor [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: bor [[...]][i#] [p.]

wife

妻

• angbor [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: afng'bor [[...]][i#] [p.]
  husband and wife
  夫妻

• zhoaxbor [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: zhoa'bor [[...]][i#] [p.]
  marry a wife
  娶妻

• Bøo bor bøo kaau, zhexngsvaf phoax kengthaau. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Bøo bor bøo kaau, zheng'svaf phoax kefng'thaau. [[...]][i#] [p.]
  No wife to mend my clothes, Such is life without a wife
  無妻無子,衣破無人補

zabji-svisviux: zhuo, guu, hor, thox, leeng (loong), zoaa, bea, viuu, kaau, køef, kao, ty [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: zap'ji-svef'sviux: chie, guu, hor, thox, leeng (loong), zoaa, bea, viuu, kaau, kef, kao, ty; zap'ji-svy'sviux: zhuo, guu, hor, thox, leeng (loong), zoaa, bea, viuu, kaau, køef, kao, ty; (zap'ji-svy'sviux) [[...]][i#] [p.]

the twelve signs of the zodiac; The animals used as the signs for the characters of the cycle of twelve: (rat, cow, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, chicken, dog, pig

十二生肖(鼠,牛,虎,兔,龍,蛇,馬,羊,猴,雞,狗,豬)

høefsiøsvoaf [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: hoea'siøf'svoaf; høea'siøf'svoaf [[...]][i#] [p.]

forest fire

火燒山

• Hoefsiøsvoaf, luixtiøh kaau. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Hoea'siøf'svoaf, lui'tiøh kaau. [[...]][i#] [p.]
  One person's difficulty affects other people. We all hang together. (Forest fire disturbs the monkeys.)
  池魚之殃

kaau [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: kaau; (hoo) [[...]][i#] [p.]

monkey

猴

kaau ka kaau [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: kaau ka kaau [[...]][i#] [p.]

two men fighting over the same women (Lit. monkey bites monkey)

奸夫互毆

luixtiøh [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: lui'tiøh [[...]][i#] [p.]

involve (in debt, responsibility or trouble)

累及

• Hoefsiøsvoaf luixtiøh kaau [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Hoea'siøf'svoaf lui'tiøh kaau [[...]][i#] [p.]
  A forest fire brings trouble upon monkeys.
  池魚之殃

sviux [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: sviux [[...]][i#] [p.]

animal signs used in the twelve year cycle, be born in a particular year of the twelve year cycle, represented by one of twelve animals.

屬,生肖

• Lie sviux symmiq? [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Lie sviux sirm'miq? [[...]][i#] [p.]
  What animal is the sign of your year of birth?
  你屬什麼生肖?

• Goar sviux ty. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Goar sviux ty. [[...]][i#] [p.]
  I was born in the year of the pig.
  我屬豬。

• zabji svesviux — zuo, thviuo, iin, bao, siin, ci, gvor, bi, syn, iuo, sud, hai (chie, guu, hor, thox, leeng, zoaa, bea, viuu, kaau, kef, kao, ty) [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: zap'ji svef'sviux — zuo, thviuo, iin, bao, siin, ci, gvor, bi, syn, iuo, sud, hai (chie, guu, hor, thox, leeng, zoaa, bea, viuu, kaau, kef, kao, ty); zap'ji svef/svy'sviux — zuo, thviuo, iin, bao, siin, ci, gvor, bi, syn, iuo, sud, hai (chie/zhuo, guu, hor, thox, leeng, zoaa, bea, viuu, kaau, køef, kao, ty) [[...]][i#] [p.]
  the year of the animal in which one was born: (the year of the) rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, lamb, monkey, chicken, dog, pig — corresponding to the duodecimal cycle
  十二生肖 — 子,丑,寅,卯,辰,巳,午,未,申,酉,戌,亥(鼠,牛,虎,兔,龍,蛇,馬,羊,猴,雞,狗,豬)

thaai køef kax kaau [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: thay kef kax kaau; thaai'køef-kax'kaau [[...]][i#] [p.]

kill a fowl as a warning to monkey — make an example of a man

殺雞儆猴

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