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HTB (1)
- thaikøef kax kaau [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]]
- kill a fowl as a warning to monkey ─ make an example of a man
- 殺雞儆猴
DFT (3)- 🗣 kaau 🗣 (u: kaau) 猴 [wt][mo] kâu
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- 1. (N)
|| 哺乳動物。外形與人類相似，全身長毛，能站立，並用後腿走路，行動矯捷靈活，喜群居生活。十二生肖排序第九的生肖。
- 🗣le: (u: Svoaf'terng u cyn ze kaau.) 🗣 (山頂有真濟猴。) (山上有很多猴子。)
- 🗣le: (u: kaau'safn`ar) 🗣 (猴山仔) (猴子)
- 2. (Adj) skinny and dark-skinned; ugly as a monkey
|| 形容人的外貌長得又瘦又黑、十分難看，就像猴子一樣。
- 🗣le: (u: Hid khof svef'zøx kaau'kaau.) 🗣 (彼箍生做猴猴。) (那個人長得瘦黑難看。)
- 3. (N) refers to someone, used contempt, scolding, ridicule, etc
|| 常用來表示輕視、罵人、嘲笑等各種情況的指稱。
- 🗣le: (u: lau'kaau) 🗣 (老猴) (妻子怒稱或戲稱丈夫)
- 🗣le: (u: kaau'girn'ar) 🗣 (猴囡仔) (稱呼調皮的小孩)
- 🗣le: (u: m'cviaa'kaau) 🗣 (毋成猴) (罵人不像樣)
- 4. (N) male paramour
|| 姘夫。
- 🗣le: (u: liah'kaau) 🗣 (掠猴) (捉姦)
tonggi: ; s'tuix:
- 🗣 sviux 🗣 (u: sviux) 相p [wt][mo] siùnn
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- 1. (V) to be born in a particular year of the twelve year cycle, represented by one of twelve animals (zhuo, guu, hor, thox, lioong, zoaa, bea, viuu, kaau, køef, kao, ty)
|| 生肖歸屬。
- 🗣le: (u: sviux ty) 🗣 (相豬) (屬豬)
- 2. (Adj) -temperament
|| 樣態、性情。
- 🗣le: (u: zhefng'khix'sviux) 🗣 (清氣相) (愛乾淨的樣子)
- 🗣le: (u: phvae'khvoax'sviux) 🗣 (歹看相) (難看、丟臉)
tonggi: ; s'tuix:
- 🗣 toxkaau 🗣 (u: to'kaau) 杜猴 [wt][mo] tōo-kâu
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- 1. (N)
|| 蟋蟀。昆蟲名。體型圓長，為黑褐色，觸角細長，後肢長大，很會跳躍。雄蟲翅膀上有發聲器，是利用兩翅摩擦發出聲音的。生性好鬥、怕光，會躲藏在泥土中或石礫下，以植物為食，是農作物的害蟲。
tonggi: ; s'tuix:
Maryknoll (14)
- bor [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: bor [[...]]
- wife
- 妻
- koarntoxkaau [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: koaxn'to'kaau [[...]]
- pour water into a hole in order to catch cricket, describe someone drinks a lot of beverage or water
- 灌水入土洞來捉蟋蟀,形容喝大量飲料
- mxcviakaau [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: m'cviaa'kaau [[...]]
- amazing, terrific, extraordinary, ugly (doesn't look like a human being)
- 不像人樣,想不到,真了不起,真不錯
- sviux [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: sviux [[...]]
- 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
- 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) [[...]]
- 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 [[...]]
- kill a fowl as a warning to monkey — make an example of a man
- 殺雞儆猴
- toxkaau [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: to'kaau [[...]]
- insect like a wingless grasshopper, very destructive to crops, a species of cricket
- 蟋蟀
EDUTECH (14)
- kau'orng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: kaw/kaau'orng [[...]]
- be friends, to have mutual interests
- 交往
- kauciexn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: kaw/kaau'ciexn [[...]]
- to fight, join battle, engage in war
- 交戰
- kauhoaan [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: kaw/kaau'hoaan [[...]]
- to return, to give back
- 交還,交回
- kauhofng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: kaw/kaau'hofng [[...]]
- to attack each other
- 交鋒
- kauhux [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: kaw/kaau'hux [[...]]
- hand over to, to deliver to, to pay
- 交付
- kaukaix [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: kaw/kaau'kaix [[...]]
- boundary, to border on, conterminous
- 交界
- kaukied [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: kaw/kaau'kied [[...]]
- to associate with
- 交結
- kaukoafn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: kaw/kaau'koafn [[...]]
- to buy, buying
- 買
- kauliuu [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: kaw/kaau'liuu [[...]]
- to exchange, alternate, interchange, alternation, interchange
- 交流
- kausiap [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: kaw/kaau'siap [[...]]
- to negotiate, negotiation
- 交涉
- kautaam [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: kaw/kaau'taam [[...]]
- make a conversation, have a heart-to-heart talk
- 交談
- kauthog [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: kaw/kaau'thog [[...]]
- entrust, commit to, commitment, consignment
- 交托
- kauzhud [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: kaw/kaau'zhud [[...]]
- to surrender something, hand in, hand over, extradite
- 交出
- toxkaau [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: to'kaau [[...]]
- brown cricket, mole-cricket
- 臺灣大蟋蟀; 螻蛄
Embree (3)
- toxkaau [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: to'kaau [[...]][i#] [p.269]
- N/Ent chiah : brown cricket (Brachytrupes portentosus?)
- 臺灣大蟋蟀
- toxkaau [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: to'kaau [[...]][i#] [p.269]
- N chaih : mole-cricket, Gryllotalpa africana
- 螻蛄
- thaikøef-karkaau [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: thaai'kef/koef kax'kaau; thaai'køef-kax'kaau [[...]][i#] [p.278]
- Sph : punish one person as a warning to others
- 殺雞儆猴
Lim08 (1)
- u: to'kaau 土猴 [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]][i#] [p.B0452/B0452] [#65359]
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- ( 動 ) 大蟋蟀 。 <>