釵
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A hair-pin, broad and curved so that it will lie across the occiput; those who wear hair-pins, females.
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kim thoi;
gold hair-pins.
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hŏng thoi;
a hair-pin with a phenix on it.
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kim-thoi cîeh hôk; thoi-hôk;
a kind of medicine, the stem of an orchid, whose dried stalks are likened to hair-pins, and look like liquorice roots.
體
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The body, the whole person; a solid; a class; a body of officers; the important; essentials; becoming; respectable; influential; to receive courteously.
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sin-thói;
the human body; bodily.
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chut sin lò thói;
chiah sin lò thói; stark naked.
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cìeⁿ-seⁿ m̄ hah thói-sek;
that is not in good taste.
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cò̤ mih sṳ̄ to tîeh tit thói;
all things must be done decently and in order; in everything, suitable respect must be paid to persons.
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thói-thiap;
to accommodate; to sympathize with; to put one’s self in another’s place.
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i mih sṳ̄ to thói-thiap nâng;
he is very accommodating in everything.
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thói-thóng;
decorum; what is befititng.
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chŵn bô̤ kâi thói-thóng;
has no sense of propriety.
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úa thóiⁿ i bô̤ kâi sin-seⁿ thói;
he does not appear to me to have the aspect of a teacher.
代
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Instead, for, in place of; to alter; to supersede; to substitute.
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nŏ̤ nâng sie táu thòi;
the two spell each other at it.
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ŭ sî úa li thòi lú, ŭ sî lṳ́ li thò̤i úa;
sometimes you take my place, and sometimes I take yours.
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lṳ́ thòi i cò̤;
you do it in his stead.
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cang cí kâi thòi hṳ́ kâi lâi chō̤;
take this to put it in instead of that.
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kò cêk kâi thòi-sin;
hire a substitute.
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cí kâi sĭ i kâi thòi-sin;
this is his substitute.
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i sĭ thòi nâng cò̤ sṳ̄;
he is acting in another’s place.
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kio pât nâng thòi phōiⁿ hùe-mûeh;
buying and selling goods for another person.
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thó̤ khṳ̀ thò̤i nâng sí;
ask the privilege of dying in another’s stead.
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cí kâi kuaⁿ sĭ thòi ĺi kâi;
this magistrate is acting in place of another.
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i tàⁿ i cí nŏ̤ mêⁿ thiaⁿ-kìⁿ kúi tó̤ hàm thòi;
he says he has heard a bodiless spirit calling him these last two nights to commit suicide.