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zaixsvef [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: zai'svef [[...]][i#] [p.]

be among the living, be living, be in the world, not dead

在世

• Zaixsvef ciah cit liap tau, khahhør syau haux ti'thaau. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Zai'svef ciah cit liap tau, khaq'hør sie'au haux ty'thaau.; Zai'svef/svy ciah cit liap tau, khaq'hør sie'au haux ty'thaau. [[...]][i#] [p.]
  It's better to take care of parents while they are alive rather than make a show of being filial at their funeral. (Lit. Better to give parents one bean when living rather than to offer them a pig's head after they die.)
  在生吃一粒豆,勝過死後孝豬頭。父母在世時好好孝敬,比在身後才大事祭拜有意義。

• Zaixsvef m haux na'aau, syau ciaq haux kvoazha'thaau. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Zai'svef m haux naa'aau, sie'au ciaq haux kvoaf'zhaa'thaau.; Zai'svef/svy m haux naa'aau, sie'au ciaq haux kvoaf'zhaa'thaau. [[...]][i#] [p.]
  to pay respect to parents after they die after not taking care of them while they were living, unfilial
  父母在生不養,死後才想孝敬。

gviaugviaw [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: gviaw'gviaw [[...]][i#] [p.]

sensation of tickling, ticklish

癢癢的

• na'aau gviaugviaw [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: naa'aau gviaw'gviaw [[...]][i#] [p.]
  feeling of irritation in throat (as when about to cough or to vomit)
  喉嚨癢癢

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