粟
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Paddy; rice in the husk.
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chek-chng;
a granary.
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chng chek;
to garner rice.
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cek liap chek;
a grain of unhusked rice.
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phâk chek;
spread rice in the sun to dry.
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chek-tîaⁿ;
an area made for drying rice.
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chek-pê;
a paddy scoop.
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chek-thâu;
paddy.
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chek-tĭam;
a paddy basket.
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phàⁿ chek;
blasted rice.
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chek-sui;
a head of paddy.
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chek-sui hoih;
the heads of paddy are blighted.
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chek, nŏ̤ tâng sĭ cêk seng, câp seng kìe-cò̤ cêk táu, câp táu kìe-cò̤ cêk cîeh;
two pints of paddy are a quart, ten quarts are a peck, and ten pecks make a chaldron.
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cêk cîeh cĭu sĭ cêk tàⁿ, cêk tàⁿ bōi kâi gūa ngṳ̂n;
a chaldron is a picul, and a picul sells for over a dollar.
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kùe lâi kâi chek kè khíong-ùi kùi;
late in the season the price of paddy may be still higher.
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cêk tàⁿ chek oi ŭ jîeh cōi bí?
How much hulled rice have you got from the picul of paddy?
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cêk seng bí cṳ́ jîeh cōi pn̄g?
How much boiled rice will a quart of uncooked rice make?
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châng chek cîah pn̄g;
eat of the product of one’s own fields.
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chek-sni pá, siu ŭ sîaⁿ;
the ears of paddy are full and we shall harvest many fold.
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put chek lâi cìm céng;
put some paddy asoak to use as seed.
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lṳ́ cêk nî siu ŭ jîeh cōi chek?
How much paddy do you harvest in a year?
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lô̤h hieⁿ lâi siu co chek;
gone to the country to get his share of the product of the rice fields.
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cí lûa chek oi ŭ jîeh cōi cho-khng chut lâi?
How much paddy husk came from this basket of unhusked rice?
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úa tun ŭ kúi choiⁿ tàⁿ chek tŏ̤ kò̤;
I have several thousand piculs of paddy on hand.
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thìe kúi tàⁿ chek lâi bói mûeh;
barter off paddy for other goods.
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tîah chek;
buys paddy.
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lô̤h hŏ chek bŏi ta, tîeh khí húe lâi pue;
it rains so the paddy cannot dry, and a fire must be built for drying it.
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châng tèng kâi chek cìm kàu chut gê;
the paddy in the fields has sprouted.
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cí cho̤h chek kâi chek-khak pô̤h, oi ío ŭ bí;
the husk of this paddy is thin, and there will be the more of the rice after hulling.
測
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To estimate; to fathom.
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lâng chek-tâk;
difficult to estimate.
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pìen-hùe lâng chek;
it is difficult to calculate the amount of the change.
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chek m̄ pat tò̤ khṳ̀;
do not know how to make an estimate of it.
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m̄-hó̤ chek-tâk;
inestimable.
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ngŏ̤ tîeh put chek kâi sṳ̄ cū hó̤ ēng;
when something unexpected occurs, it may be used.
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chek jī sin-seⁿ;
one who tells fortunes from letters.
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chim kàu m̄-hó̤ chek;
unfathomable.
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chui-chek tŏ̤-lí;
inscrutable doctrines.
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chek-thóiⁿ ŭ jîeh cōi;
make a calculation of the amount.
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chek tit chut;
calculable.
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chek m̄ chut;
incalculable.
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chek-thóiⁿ cúi jîeh chim;
calculate the depth of the water.
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kìⁿ tŏ̤ put chek phŏ;
among things inscrutable.
窄
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Insufficient.
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kín-chek; oîh-chek;
cramped, straitened, contracted.
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kín-chek kín-chek nē;
barely enough.
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bô̤ sĭm-mih khuah, ôih-chek ôih-chek;
there is not much space, it is very cramped.
膝
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The knees.
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khut chek;
bend the knee.
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chek ĕ;
those under one’s authority.
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kha chíu chek ĕ;
children and dependents.
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phang-ie ho̤h-chek;
a waist like a wasp’s and knees like a stork’s.
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ho̤h chek huang;
enlargement of the knee joint.
惻
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To sympathize.
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chek-ṳ́n kâi sim;
humane feelings.
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nâng-nâng to ŭ chek-ṳ́n kâi sim;
every one has natural sympathies.
斥
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To expel.
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lṳ́ a m̄ cun, úa cĭu cang lṳ́ chek-keh;
if you do not obey, I will take away your office.
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chek-tôk;
to drive out.
側
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Lateral; onesided.
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chek mâk;
envious glances.
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chek sin;
lop sided.
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chek-ŏ̤;
leans over to one side.