A Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of the Swatow Dialect (汕頭方言音義字典) / khiap

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歹

• Bad, vicious, evil, vice.

• nâng ŭ hó̤, ŭ khiap;

  there are both good and bad people.

• i to m̄ pat hó̤ khiap;

  he does not know good from evil.

• hó̤ khiap sṳ̄, to m̄ chap;

  does not mix himself up in affairs whether proper or disreputable.

• i sĭang cai hó̤ khiap;

  he clearly discriminates between virtue and vice.

怯

• Timorous, fearful.

• i kâi sim ùi-khiap;

  he is faint-hearted.

• i sim khiap, m̄ káⁿ cìn-côiⁿ

  he is timorous, and dare not go forward.