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- ar [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: aq; (paq) [[...]]
- one hundred (used as a substitute some times for pah but never used for any sum less than two hundred)
- 百
- auxzhutsix [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: au'zhud'six; (au'six) [[...]]
- future life by reincarnation
- 來世
- auxsex [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: au'sex; (au'six) [[...]]
- posterity, after ages, the next life, after-life, future life
- 後世,來世
- auxsix [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: au'six; (au'zhud'six) [[...]]
- future life by reincarnation
- 來世
- baxnsex [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: ban'sex; (ban'six) [[...]]
- for all ages, generation after generation
- 萬世
- bøo siafsix [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: bøo siar'six [[...]]
- shameless
- 丟臉
- bøtapsab [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: bøo'tab'sab [[...]]
- not enough
- 不夠
- zaesvaf zaesix [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: zaix'svaf zaix'six [[...]]
- again and again, over and over again
- 再三再四
- zam zøx six tex [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: zam zøx six tex [[...]]
- cut into four pieces
- 砍成四塊
- zawlo [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: zao'lo [[...]]
- be on the run, on the lam
- 逃債,亡命
- zengsix [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: zeeng'six; (zeeng'sex) [[...]]
- the previous generation, the previous life in the reincarnation cycle
- 前世
- chitzeeng liog'iok [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: chid'zeeng liok'iok [[...]]
- Buddhism: the seven emotions (happiness 喜, anger 怒, sorrow 哀, joy 樂, love 愛, hate 恨, and desire 慾) and the six sensory pleasures derived from the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind
- 七情六慾
- zhornglip [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: zhoxng'lip; (zhoxng'pan) [[...]]
- foundation, organization, establishment, found, set up, establish
- 創立,創辦
- zhutsix [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: zhud'six [[...]]
- be born
- 出生
- cvii [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: cvii [[...]]
- money, cash
- 錢
- Ciah laang cit kyn, ma aix heeng laang six niuo. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Ciah laang cit kyn, ma aix heeng laang six niuo. [[...]]
- If you eat a pound, you must return four ounces. Be grateful.
- 有恩必要報。
- ciamlea [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: ciafm'lea [[...]]
- feast day (Catholic)
- 瞻禮
- cit ee cvii phaq jixsix kad. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: cit ee cvii phaq ji'six kad. [[...]]
- cheapskate, tight fisted, has to untie 24 knots before he will spend a dollar. (Lit. One dollar is tied up by twenty-four knots.)
- 一個錢,打二十四個結,吝嗇鬼。
- cit ee cit kyn, cit ee zablak niuo [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: cit ee cit kyn, cit ee zap'lak niuo [[...]]
- six of the one, half a dozen of the other; tweedledum and tweedledee
- 半斤八兩
- Cidnii voa jixsie'ee thaukef. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Cit nii voa ji'six ee thaau'kef.; Cit'nii voa ji'six''ee thaau'kef. [[...]]
- be fickle, undependable, be unable to stick at one job (Lit. Within one year to change 24 bosses.)
- 一年換二十四個老闆。
- citsix [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: cid'six; (hien'sex) [[...]]
- the present life
- 這世,此世,現世
- cidsiekøex [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: cit'six'kex; cit'six'køex [[...]]
- everywhere
- 到處
- cid'sielaang [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: cit'six'laang [[...]]
- one's whole life, throughout one's life, life long
- 一生
- cviuxsvoaf [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: cviu'svoaf [[...]]
- ascend a mountain, go ashore (archaic)
- 上山
- zoafnciah [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: zoarn'ciah [[...]]
- earn one's livelihood, to cheat
- 訛詐,詐騙
- zoansw [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: zoaan'sw; (zoaan'sy) [[...]]
- complete book, complete set of books
- 全書
- expof [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: e'pof [[...]]
- this afternoon, the afternoon
- 下午
- expvoarnii [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: e'pvoax'nii [[...]]
- latter six months of a year
- 下半年
- goxsiesvaf [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: go'six'svaf [[...]]
- to add thing that have nothing to do with the matter, unimportant, or irrelevant
- 無關緊要的話
- gøeh [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: goeh; gøeh; (geh, goat) [[...]]
- moon, month
- 月
- hiexnsix [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: hien'six [[...]]
- be ashamed of
- 丟人
- hør chiwsix [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: hør chiuo'six [[...]]
- all going on well bringing up children or managing pupils
- 機運好
- hvoar [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: hvoar [[...]]
- in a flash
- 晃
- hvoaai [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: hvoaai; (hvuii, heeng) [[...]]
- crosswise, sideways, horizontal, wicked
- 橫,蠻橫
- y'au [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: ie'au; (liao'au) [[...]]
- afterwards, hereafter, after — in a temporal clause, this word always follows a noun, and never a verb. As in the following:
- 以後
- yha [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: ie'ha [[...]]
- below, under, less than, beneath, the following
- 以下
- ia [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: ia [[...]]
- scatter, to sow
- 播,撒
- iah [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: iah [[...]]
- page of a book
- 頁
- ieen [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: ieen [[...]]
- relationship by fate, cause, reason, hem, margin, edge, go along, to follow
- 緣
- iangsvaf thoksix [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: iafng'svaf thog'six; (iofng'svaf thog'six) [[...]]
- commission many people to act, ask someone over and again to do something
- 委三託四
- iong-bøexkoaxn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: iong-be'koaxn; iong-bøe'koaxn; (iong-be'koaxn'six) [[...]]
- unaccustomed to the use of
- 用不慣
- iongsvaf thoksix [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: iofng'svaf thog'six; (iafng'svaf thog'six) [[...]]
- to commission a number of different people to do the same job, to entrust the same job to a number of different people to make sure it gets done
- 委三託四
- jixsix haux [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: ji'six haux [[...]]
- twenty-four examples of filial piety
- 二十四孝
- kazok [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: kaf'zok [[...]]
- members of a family
- 家族
- Kaf høo baxnsu seeng, kaf loan baxnsix keeng. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Kaf høo ban'su seeng, kaf loan ban'six keeng. [[...]]
- If the family is harmonious, everything will be successful, if the family is a mess, all will be in poor shape.
- 家合萬事成,家亂萬世窮。
- ka'poe [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: kaf'poe [[...]]
- add to, to double
- 加倍
- Kamciah kampwn, u thafng ciah u thafng zhwn, thauny thauliaxm, cidsix laang khøehkhiaxm. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Kafm'ciah kafm'pwn, u thafng ciah u thafng zhwn, thaw'ny thaw'liaxm, cit'six laang khoeq'khiaxm.; Kafm'ciah kafm'pwn, u thafng ciah u thafng zhwn, thaw'ny thaw'liaxm, cit'six laang khøeq'khiaxm. [[...]]
- If you are willing to share your food with others, you will have enough to eat and still have some left over, steal, and you will be in want your whole life.
- 捨得吃,捨得施,有得吃還有剩。小氣不大方,反而一生缺用。
- køex [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: kex; køex; (koex, kaix) [[...]]
- boundary, world
- 界,處
- ke'khao [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: kef'khao [[...]]
- family
- 家庭
- khysix [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: khie'six [[...]]
- illness beginning
- 生病的開始
- khiaxsie'theeng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: khia'six'theeng [[...]]
- stand upside down
- 倒立
- khiapsix [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: khiab'six [[...]]
- ugly (said of a person)
- 醜
- khvoax bøe koaxn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: khvoax be koaxn; khvoax bøe koaxn; (be koaxn'six) [[...]]
- detest, to disdain
- 看不慣
- khvoax koarnsix [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: khvoax koaxn'six [[...]]
- used to seeing, accustomed to seeing
- 看慣
- khoxng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: khoxng [[...]]
- used to express a cipher in a numerical series
- 零
- khuizhuix [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: khuy'zhuix [[...]]
- open the mouth, begin to talk, make the first offer
- 開口
- kvoaun [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: kvoaf'un [[...]]
- official reputation
- 官運
- koarnsix [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: koaxn'six [[...]]
- accustomed to (doing, the climate), familiar with
- 慣於,習慣
- kuisielaang [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: kuy'six'laang [[...]]
- all life long
- 一生
- lak [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: lak; (liok) [[...]]
- six
- 六,陸
- lagkag [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: lak'kag [[...]]
- six-cornered, sixty cents
- 六角
- lak taixciw [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: lak tai'ciw [[...]]
- the six continents (of the world)
- 六大洲
- lauxpøo [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: lau'pøo [[...]]
- amah, maidservant
- 老傭婦(太太自嘆)
- liam [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: liam [[...]]
- handful (of grass or grain taken in the hand when cutting)
- 把
- liefntaau [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: liern'taau [[...]]
- dice, teetotum with six sides
- 骰子
- liok [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: liok; (lak) [[...]]
- six
- 六
- liok [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: liok [[...]]
- numeral six used in documents or accounts (to prevent forgery), dry land, continent
- 陸
- liogzeeng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: liok'zeeng [[...]]
- six emotions or feelings of a person (joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, love, hatred)
- 六情
- liogchyn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: liok'chyn [[...]]
- six relations (father, mother, brothers, sisters, wife, children), near relatives
- 六親
- liogge [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: liok'ge [[...]]
- six arts (rites, music, archery, chariot, driving learning, mathematics) which ancient Chinese scholars were required to master
- 六藝
- lioghap [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: liok'hap [[...]]
- six points (north, east, south, west, zenith and nadir) — everywhere, the universe
- 六合
- lioghoad zoansw [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: liok'hoad zoaan'sw [[...]]
- The complete Volume of Six Laws — an omnibus of modern Chinese Laws
- 六法全書
- lioghuo [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: liok'huo [[...]]
- six lower intestines — the gall, the stomach, the bowels and the urinary organs
- 六腑
- liogkyn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: liok'kyn [[...]]
- six roots of sensation (eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mind)
- 六根
- liogliaam [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: liok'liaam [[...]]
- six virtues of a magistrate: goodness, ability, reverence, uprightness, regard for law, discrimination
- 六廉(善,能,敬,正, 法,辨)
- liogtaixciw [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: liok'tai'ciw [[...]]
- six continents of the world
- 六大洲
- liux [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: liux [[...]]
- shrewd, alert, sharp, to wander about
- 世故,流浪
- lunhoee [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: luun'hoee [[...]]
- transmigration of souls, eternal cycle of birth and death, metempsychosis, recur successively, move in a cycle, (Buddhism), the turning of the wheel, to revolve, i.e., transmigration in the six ways, the wheel of transmigrations, the round of existence
- 輪迴
- mxkoaxn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: m'koaxn; (m'koaxn'six, be koaxn'six) [[...]]
- not accustomed to
- 不慣, 不習慣
- moar-siekøex [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: moar'six'kex; moar-six'køex [[...]]
- everywhere
- 到處
- nafsae [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: nar'sae [[...]]
- why must..., there is no need...
- 何需
- naxtvia [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: na'tvia; (nia'tvia, nia'nia) [[...]]
- only (used at the end of the clause)
- 而已
- ngfar [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: ngr'ar [[...]]
- small basket used for selling or weighing things
- 小籃子
- oex [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: oex; øex; (ex) [[...]]
- dirty, uncleanness, filthy, contaminate, scatter about
- 穢,弄髒
- oex kaq moafsiekex [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: oex kaq moar'six'kex; øex kaq moar'six'køex [[...]]
- be scattered all about
- 四處弄得雜亂
- paksix [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: pag'six [[...]]
- the northern region, on the north
- 北方
- pvephøphøf [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: pvee'phøf'phøf; pvee/pvii-phøf'phøf [[...]]
- level, even and smooth like a road, very flat
- 很平坦
- pengheeng-siepvy-heeng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: peeng'heeng six'pvy'heeng; peeng'heeng-six'pvy-heeng [[...]]
- parallelogram
- 平行四邊形
- pengkyn/pengkwn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: peeng'kyn; (peeng'kwn) [[...]]
- an average, find the average, on an average
- 平均
- phahtawsix [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: phaq'tao'six [[...]]
- to divide costs "pro rata"
- 費用平均分擔
- phvayzhaan bang auxtafng , phvaybor cidsielaang. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: phvae'zhaan bang au'tafng , phvae'bor cit'six'laang. [[...]]
- If you have poor harvest, there is still hope for the next harvest. If you have a bad wife, it is for life.
- 瘠田望下季,惡妻無希望。
- phied [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: phied [[...]]
- plate, dish, saucer
- 盤
- phvoaxkex [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: phvoa'kex [[...]]
- accompany (escort) a bride to her future home (usually in a company of six or a dozen people)
- 伴嫁