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 sĭeⁿ?
 * What do you think about it.


 * sṳ-sĭeⁿ tîeh i;
 * hold him in kind remembrance.


 * sim sĭeⁿ;
 * meditate on.


 * lṳ́ sim lăi cò̤-nî sĭeⁿ?
 * What is your own idea about it?


 * cē sĭeⁿ khí lâi cū khì;
 * whenever I think of it I become angry.


 * màiⁿ khṳ̀ sĭeⁿ i;
 * do not think about it.


 * bô̤ sĭeⁿ-thâu;
 * it is of no use to think about it; it is out of the question.


 * ŭ sĭeⁿ-thâu;
 * may be considered as hopeful or possible.


 * i sĭeⁿ-thâu khah tōa;
 * his notions are too extravagant.


 * cêk-sî sĭeⁿ bô̤ lâi;
 * cannot at this moment think what it is.


 * cĭeⁿ kàu ùi;
 * though of it till I am sick of it.


 * sĭeⁿ lâi, sĭeⁿ khṳ̀;
 * cast about in one's mind for some means of compassing it.


 * sĭeⁿ tang sĭeⁿ sai;
 * cogitate upon all possible ways of accomplishing something.


 * sĭeⁿ kàu cū cò̤ kàu;
 * the action goes no farther than the thought.


 * có̤ sĭeⁿ ĭu sĭeⁿ to sĭeⁿ bô̤ huap;
 * considered this way and that way, but could think of no practicable way.


 * i tó̤ chi-sĭeⁿ;
 * he is thinking it over.


 * îong i sĭeⁿ;
 * let liim think it over.


 * i cò̤-nî cong-kú sĭeⁿ chit sĭeⁿ poih?
 * Why does ho always borrow trouble about things?


 * sĭeⁿ hùaⁿ kâi bô̤ kâi;
 * consider it al together impossible.


 * To have the care of; to control, in which sense it occurs in official titles.
 * lâk pŏ kâi sīeⁿ-cṳ;
 * the controllers of the six Boards.
 * the controllers of the six Boards.


 * hûe-sĭeⁿ;
 * Buddhist priests.

sieh


 * To compassionate; to regard; to feel for; to regret; to scrimp; to be sparing of; close; parsimonious.
 * ài-sieh;
 * to love, to be kind to.
 * to love, to be kind to.


 * i ŏi sieh bó;
 * he is very good to his wife.


 * sieh to m̄ pá;
 * cannot do enough for him.


 * i nŏ̤ nâng sĭm sĭ sie-sieh;
 * the two are very fond of each other.


 * tōa-tōa sieh lṳ́;
 * love yon much.


 * i m̄ cai úa sieh i;
 * she does not know that I love her.


 * khó̤-sieh;
 * it is a pity.


 * lĭen-sieh cîⁿ ngṳ̂n;
 * very saving of his money.


 * sieh sèⁿ-mīaⁿ;
 * careful of life.


 * màiⁿ sieh lâk;
 * do not spare strength.


 * sieh, sieh, màiⁿ khàu;
 * there, there, don't cry.


 * A ladle.
 * tâng sîeh, thih sîeh;
 * brass and iron ladles.
 * brass and iron ladles.


 * Common; ordinary.
 * sîeh-sîeh nē;
 * common.
 * common.


 * pêⁿ sîeh;
 * commonplace; just like many others; nothing out of the usual line.


 * i kâi ūe tàⁿ chut lâi pêⁿ-sîeh căi;
 * he speaks the vernacular just as other people do.


 * thóiⁿ tîeh pêⁿ-sîeh pêⁿ-sîeh, bô̤ sĭm-mih khî;
 * it appears very commonplace and not at all extraordinary.


 * Offensive perspiration.
 * kha-sîeh;
 * offensive odor from the feet.
 * offensive odor from the feet.


 * chíu sîeh;
 * frouzy sweat on the hands.

sien


 * An immortal; human souls endued with divine powers; beings of benign nature, inferior to gods, and having the power of becoming invisible; fairies; an old recluse who changes into another form but does not die; to become immortal; deathless; anything puzzling or curious; graceful.
 * sien ko;
 * a fairy, or elf.
 * a fairy, or elf.


 * sien bô̤;
 * an old female fairy.


 * sien ong;
 * an old male fairy.


 * sien thông;
 * youthful genii.


 * sien ńng;
 * an immortal, feminine and middle aged.


 * sien-nâng;
 * the elfin folk.


 * sêng cò̤ sien;
 * become an immortal.


 * sài kùe sien-kéng;
 * more wonderful than fairyland.


 * siu līen kàu sêng sien;
 * endure affliction till immortality is attained thereby.


 * sien-kut;
 * lithe; lissome; fairylike.


 * pue sîensien [sic];
 * seraphs; genii who have great powers.


 * thien sien;
 * angels.


 * tī sien;
 * immortals living among men.


 * hŏng-sien-hue;
 * the touch-me-not flower.


 * poih sien;
 * the eight genii, deified mortals, regarded now as the patrons of art.


 * hó̤ kùe sien-tang;
 * sweeter than nectar.


 * sien-ke kâi bĭo îeh;
 * a mystic remedy from the genii; a draught giving immortality.


 * sien hut;
 * a long besom of horsehair, used to drive mosquitoes away.


 * sien tang;
 * a fairy grotto.


 * sien keng;
 * a temple of the genii.


 * i ău-lâi kui sien khṳ̀;
 * afterward he became an immortal.


 * sien-hû;
 * red coral.
 * red coral.


 * ŭ nŏ̤ ki sien-hû;
 * I have two branches of red coral.


 * Tetter; ringworm; scaldhead; scrofulous or leprous sores.
 * seⁿ sien;
 * has a scabby eruption.
 * has a scabby eruption.


 * sien îeh;
 * medicine for ringworm.


 * buah sien;
 * annoint a scaldhead.


 * gû phûe sien;
 * a kind of lepra.


 * kim cîⁿ sien;
 * a leprous patch.


 * cù mô̤ⁿ sien;
 * tetter which destroys hair.


 * âng sien;
 * red ringworm.


 * To sit abstractedly in contemplation, as do Buddhist priests; meditation; to resign the thonethrone [sic] to another family.
 * cŏ̤ siensîen [sic];
 * sit lost in contemplation.
 * sit lost in contemplation.


 * i ciu jît kio tó̤ cŏ̤-sîen cêk īeⁿ;
 * he sits all day like one in fixed contemplation, such as Buddhists practise.


 * sîen-sṳ;
 * the priests, who are supposed