樸
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Sincere, plain, unpretending.
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phok-sît;
honest, rustic, sincere, simple minded.
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khĭam-phok;
frugal, expending no more than is necessary.
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kui ciu, hẃn phok;
to reform one’s habits.
搨
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To take an impression by rubbing upon a paper laid over a stone; a facsimile; an impression.
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cía jī tŏ̤ tī-kò̤ phok lâi?
From what was this impression taken?
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sĭ tŏ̤ cṳ̆-īⁿ lăi kâi cîeh-pi phok chut lâi kâi;
it was taken from a stone tablet in the college.
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phok jī-thiap;
take impressions for use as examples to copy.
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phok khṳ̀ hŭn-hŭn;
blurred in taking the impression.
凸
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Protuberant; bulging.
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phok mâk;
protruding eyeballs.
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phok-mâk kim-lí;
eyeballs bulging from their sockets, like those of goldfish.
撲
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To impinge; to strike upon; to flap; to flog.
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chin-chĭeⁿ húe sie khṳ̀ cē khuah cū o̤h phoh-mît;
like fire which after it reaches a certain height, is slapped out with great difficulty.
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hṳ́ cêk kó châk cò̤ cē phok-mit khṳ̀;
that band of robbers was extirpated at a stroke.
卜
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To divine by looking at, or by rattling coins inside a tortoise shell; to guess; sortilege; divination.
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kit hiang būe phok;
not yet divined whether it is lucky or unlucky.
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i suaⁿ ui mīaⁿ phok lóng-cóng ŏi;
he can practise sortilege, tell fortunes, cure the sick, and locate graves.
伺
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To spy; to reconnoitre.
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khṳt i a-pĕ phôk tîeh;
was espied by his father.
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àm-cĕⁿ hàm nâng khṳ̀ phôk-thóiⁿ i tó̤ cò̤ mih sṳ̄;
secretly engaged some one to go and find out what he was doing.
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khṳ̀ phô̤k-tîeh i tú-tú tó̤ cîah a-phìen;
went and espied him just when he was smoking opium.