束
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To bind many things together, to tie in a bundle, as fagots; to restrain, to coerce; a sheaf, a bundle; a classifier of such things as are bound.
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sok cò̤ cêk sok;
bind them up in one bundle.
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kwn lăi kâi sok-siu sĭ jîeh cōi?
In the written agreement with the teacher, what is the sum agreed upon as his wages?
ak-sok; iak-sok;
to repress, to keep down.
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tîeh cai ak-sok i màiⁿ hùang-sṳ̀;
must keep him under restraint so that he will not be impudent.
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iak-sok kàu ngîam căi;
kept in strict subjection.
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m̄-hó̤ sok-pâk kàu nâng bô̤ lō hó̤ kîaⁿ;
should not bind people so that they have no freedom of action.
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hái-îeⁿ kâi pńg chut lâi ŭ jîeh cōi sok?
How many bundles of fifty essays each were there, belonging to the Hai Ie candidates?
i cí hûe sît-căi sok chíu;
he is now really unable to act.
索
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To place under obligation harmfully.
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lêk-sok;
extort.
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cà sok;
badger.
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sok mīaⁿ;
to involve one’s life.
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sok i kâi hûn;
implicate to such an extent as to involve all he possesses.
縮
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To shrink; to contract; to shrivel up; to draw in.
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lîm tīn, thò̤-sok;
retreated when face to face with the enemy.
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sok cò̤ cêk kò̤-kíaⁿ;
shriveled up to a little bit.
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sok-tó̤ ku-ā chùn;
shrunk several inches.
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kṳn sok kàu ŏi thìaⁿ;
the tendon is drawn up so that it aches.
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sok-bûa;
to draw in.
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sok-bûa cìaⁿ bŏi kûe lō;
draw back, so as not to be in the way.
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úa kâi kha, thiⁿ-sî chìn cū ŏi sok sòi;
when the weather is cold my feet shrivel and become smaller.
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sok cò̤ cêk pé;
all shrunk up in a bunch.
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sok kàu sòi-sòi;
shriveled up small.
速
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Hasty, speedy, quick, urgent.
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sok-sok cū khṳ̀ lí;
went quickly to attend to it.
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húe sok cū khṳ̀;
went off in the utmost haste.
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ciet sok cū lâi;
came with the greatest speed.
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kîaⁿ sĭ kùe sok-hieⁿ;
goes out of fashion sooner than a common incense stick burns out.
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àiⁿ sok put tâk;
if you are too urgent it cannot be effected; the more haste the less speed.
肅
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Respectful; reverential, as when one is desirous to do his duty fully; severe and majestic.
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sok-cĕⁿ;
decorous.
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i kâi ke-kui ngîam-sok căi;
the domestic discipline is very strict.
寂
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Silent; still; solitary.
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sok-môk;
lonely.
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ka-kī khĭa-khí sok-môk căi;
living all by yourself you must be lonely.
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sok-sok môk-môk, bô̤ nâng sie phŭaⁿ;
very lonely with no companionship.
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sok-cĕⁿ; sok-sok cĕⁿ;
very solitary.
屬
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To belong to; pertaining to; allied.
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sôk tŏ̤ tī-tîang kò̤?
To whom does it belong?
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sĭ i kâi chin sôk;
are his own kin.
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cŭe bô̤ kîp i kâi ke-sôk;
the crime does not involve his subordinates.
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sĭ tŏ̤ i kâi sôk ĕ;
it pertains to his inferiors.
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sôk tŏ̤ siang-hó̤;
depends upon his associates.
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sṳ̄ sôk líang lâng;
to act either way is equally difficult.
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sôk-ŵn;
a subaltern.
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sôk tī-tîang kẃn?
Under whose constrol is it?
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cía sĭ sôk tŏ̤ lṳ́ kò̤;
this pertains to you.
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sôk tŏ̤ i hâng ĕ;
subject to him.
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cía ĭ sôk im a sĭ sôk îang?
Does this belong to the female or to the male principle iu nature?
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tîe-ciu-hú káu sôk;
the Tie-Chiu Department has nine districts.
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tău-thâi sĭ kẃn-lí jît-sì sôk;
the ntendant of Circuit governs twenty-four dependencies.
俗
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What the common people desire or delight in; inelegant; uneducated; common, vulgar; the low and groveling business of life; the laity; the world.
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sì-sók;
manners of the times.
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sôk ĕ cíe nâng cìeⁿ-seⁿ;
of the common people but few do thus.
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sôk ūe;
common talk, brogue, argot, a conventional dialect different from the book language.
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sôk ūe cìeⁿ-seⁿ tàⁿ;
that is the way the unlearned talk.
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cìeⁿ-seⁿ sía sĭ sôk sía;
that is the way it is commonly written by the uneducated.
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lîah i hŵn sôk;
return him forcibly (from the priesthood) to common life.
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i kâi sôk-ke sèⁿ sĭm-mûeh?
What is his laic surname?
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iông-sôk kâi nâng;
the vulgar.
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sîp sôk;
acquire vulgar habits.
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cí kò̤ kâi hong-sôk ío hó̤;
the usages here are better.
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i kâi nâng-īeⁿ seⁿ-lâi put sôk;
his appearance is not that of a common person.
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khah sôk;
too commonplace.
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sĭm sĭ sô̤-sôk;
is very base.
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kṳ hieⁿ sôk sĭ cìeⁿ-se;
such are the customs of the village.
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ak hong-sôk;
wicked ways.
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cí kâi nâng cò̤ sṳ̄ cū thut sôk;
this man acts as if he were free from the prejudices of the ignorant.
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sôk gṳ́;
an aphorism, a proverb.
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jîp hieⁿ sûi sôk;
when in Rome do as the Romans do.
續
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To succeed, to keep up, to join on; continuous.
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sôk ău cò̤-nî?
What then follows?
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lôk-sôk lâi ŭ jîeh cōi?
One after the other, how many have come?
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lâi khṳ̀ m̄ ciap-sôk;
did not come and go continuously.
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i cē ciap-sôk m̄ tîeh cū kang-khó chūe;
if the continuity is broken it is difficult to find the clue again.
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cí kâi bó sĭ ău lâi lêng-ūaⁿ sôk-hîⁿ kâi;
this is a second wife.
贖
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To ransom; set free.
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sôk cŭe;
set free from the consequences of sin.
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sôk sin;
to manumit.
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sôk hûe;
to ransom.
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sôk tńg lâi;
to release from pawn or mortgage.
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sôk siu ca-bó;
a manumited female slave.
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cang kong sôk cŭe;
to make merit offset sin.
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chíu-sôk;
to redeem.