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 districts.
 * tău-thâi sĭ kẃn-lí jît-sì sôk;
 * the ntendant of Circuit governs twenty-four dependencies.


 * What the common people desire or delight in; inelegant; uneducated; common, vulgar; the low and groveling business of life; the laity; the world.
 * sì-sók;
 * manners of the times.
 * manners of the times.


 * sôk ĕ cíe nâng cìeⁿ-seⁿ;
 * of the common people but few do thus.


 * sôk ūe;
 * common talk, brogue, argot, a conventional dialect different from the book language.


 * sôk ūe cìeⁿ-seⁿ tàⁿ;
 * that is the way the unlearned talk.


 * cìeⁿ-seⁿ sía sĭ sôk sía;
 * that is the way it is commonly written by the uneducated.


 * lîah i hŵn sôk;
 * return him forcibly (from the priesthood) to common life.


 * i kâi sôk-ke sèⁿ sĭm-mûeh?
 * What is his laic surname?


 * iông-sôk kâi nâng;
 * the vulgar.


 * sîp sôk;
 * acquire vulgar habits.


 * cí kò̤ kâi hong-sôk ío hó̤;
 * the usages here are better.


 * i kâi nâng-īeⁿ seⁿ-lâi put sôk;
 * his appearance is not that of a common person.


 * khah sôk;
 * too commonplace.


 * sĭm sĭ sô̤-sôk;
 * is very base.


 * kṳ hieⁿ sôk sĭ cìeⁿ-se;
 * such are the customs of the village.


 * ak hong-sôk;
 * wicked ways.


 * cí kâi nâng cò̤ sṳ̄ cū thut sôk;
 * this man acts as if he were free from the prejudices of the ignorant.


 * sôk gṳ́;
 * an aphorism, a proverb.


 * jîp hieⁿ sûi sôk;
 * when in Rome do as the Romans do.


 * To succeed, to keep up, to join on; continuous.
 * sôk ău cò̤-nî?
 * What then follows?
 * What then follows?


 * lôk-sôk lâi ŭ jîeh cōi?
 * One after the other, how many have come?


 * lâi khṳ̀ m̄ ciap-sôk;
 * did not come and go continuously.


 * i cē ciap-sôk m̄ tîeh cū kang-khó chūe;
 * if the continuity is broken it is difficult to find the clue again.


 * cí kâi bó sĭ ău lâi lêng-ūaⁿ sôk-hîⁿ kâi;
 * this is a second wife.


 * To ransom; set free.
 * sôk cŭe;
 * set free from the consequences of sin.
 * set free from the consequences of sin.


 * sôk sin;
 * to manumit.


 * sôk hûe;
 * to ransom.


 * sôk tńg lâi;
 * to release from pawn or mortgage.


 * sôk siu ca-bó;
 * a manumited female slave.


 * cang kong sôk cŭe;
 * to make merit offset sin.


 * chíu-sôk;
 * to redeem.

song


 * Slack, lax, easy; disheveled; loose.
 * i kâi thâu-mô̤ⁿ phô̤ng-phô̤ng song-song;
 * her hair is all flying at loose ends.
 * her hair is all flying at loose ends.


 * song i cek ē cē;
 * let him off easily this time.


 * hăng-song cē, màiⁿ khah kín;
 * slacken it a little, do not draw it too tight.


 * cí kâi huap khah song;
 * this law is too lax.


 * song-khùai;
 * at ease, comfortable.


 * song-tŏng;
 * in easy circumstances.


 * To rise abruptly above the general level.
 * i kâi phiⁿ khah kau-sóng;
 * her nose is too prominent.
 * her nose is too prominent.


 * pât kò̤ li phùe-kah m̄ kùe kìe cò̤ ko hong tôk sóng;
 * whatever rises disproportionately above its surroundings is called an isolated peak.


 * sóng kàu kûiⁿ-kûiⁿ khí khṳ̀;
 * stretches up to a great height.


 * The pine.
 * kam-sông-hieⁿ;
 * spikenard, the perfume obtained from the.
 * spikenard, the perfume obtained from the.


 * hĭa sông;
 * a plant, like liverwort, found growing on the roofs of old houses.


 * sông cak;
 * fine joints of pine sprigs, used in medicine.


 * To contend before rulers about property; to demand justice; litigation; pleadings or wranglings before the courts; law cases; the sixth of the 64 diagrams, denoting disagreement.
 * sŏng-sṳ;
 * a lawyer; a pettifogger.
 * a lawyer; a pettifogger.


 * sŏng- pó;
 * an old withered lawyer.


 * lîah sŏng kùn;
 * a lawmonger, a shyster.


 * jîp sek sŏng a būe?
 * Have they announced a cessation of the prosecution yet?


 * tio-sŏng;
 * aggressive in litigation.


 * i kâi ūe sŏng căi;
 * he is very contentious.


 * líang ke in-ūi sṳ̂-sŏng kâi sṳ̄ phùa tīo tōa-bó̤-mûeh cîⁿ;
 * the two parties have spent a great amount of money in litigation.


 * To praise publicly; to eulogize; panegyric.
 * ko̤-sŏng i kâi kong-ṳn;
 * extol his goodness.
 * extol his goodness.


 * nâng-nâng ko̤ kong sŏng tek;
 * every body lauds his merits.


 * To hum; to read in a murmuring tone; to croon over; a droning way of reading.
 * sŏng si;
 * to croon a hymn.
 * to croon a hymn.


 * sŏng keng;
 * recite the liturgy.


 * ko̤-sŏng;
 * to chant.

 so̤


 * The motion of snakes.
 * so̤ jîp khang tói;
 * wriggled into his hole.
 * wriggled into his hole.


 * so̤ m̄ kùe;
 * cannot wriggle through.


 * i cò̤ i so̤ khṳ̀;
 * he wriggled off.


 * Open; wide apart; coarse; distant in space, time or relationship; sundered; sleazy; pervious; lax.
 * hi-so̤;
 * sleazy, thin, having wide interstices.
 * sleazy, thin, having wide interstices.


 * nâng-mûeh hi-so̤;
 * the population is sparse.


 * tẁn bŏi so̤-ngô̤;
 * assure that there will be no remissness.


 * kío i ío so̤;
 * not so nearly related to her.


 * bô̤ chin so̤ kău pô̤h;
 * have no