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 * A nest; a resort.
 * cío tàu;
 * a bird's nest.


 * koi tàu;
 * a fowl's nest.


 * tṳ tàu;
 * a pig's bed.


 * kâⁿ chīu-ki khṳ̀ co̤h tàu;
 * took a twig in his mouth for the building of his nest.


 * tìam tŏ̤ tàu tói pū kíaⁿ;
 * stayed in the nest hovering her brood.


 * kui lîo kui tàu;
 * return to their accustomed haunts.


 * mûeh tīo i kâi tàu;
 * spoiled their nests.


 * cìam tàu;
 * usurp a nest.


 * phah phùa i kâi châk-tàu;
 * destroy a retreat of robbers.


 * i bô̤ tàu cū bŏi cŭ cò̤ cêk ē;
 * if they have no lurking place they cannot assemble.


 * bô̤ tàu cū bô̤ kò̤ hó̤ châng sin;
 * if they have no haunt, they will have no place to conceal themselves.


 * kheh-cío tàu;
 * a magpie's nest.


 * hĭa tàu;
 * ants' nests.


 * bô̤ lîo bô̤ tàu;
 * without house or home.


 * To struggle for; to contend; to rival in zeal for; to emulate; to do vigorously.
 * tàu thóiⁿ tī-tîang méⁿ;
 * see who will be quickest.
 * see who will be quickest.


 * tàu phĕ cûn;
 * paddle a race in boats.


 * tàu sái cûn;
 * a regatta.


 * tàu cáu;
 * run a race.


 * sie tàu hì;
 * rival theatres.


 * hàm nŏ̤ pang lâi sie tàu;
 * call two companies of performers to emulate each other.


 * taù thâk cṳ;
 * strive to excel each other in study.


 * To reach to; to attain; complete.
 * tàu-tí sĭ cò̤-nî?
 * After all, what does it amount to?
 * After all, what does it amount to?


 * kẃn-thăi i kâi lói-sìo sĭm sĭ ciu-tàu;
 * the courtesy with which he treated him was perfect.


 * sṳ̆-lí kàu ciu-ciu tàu-tàu;
 * arranged in the most complete manner.


 * After all; well then; indicating the end of the matter.
 * tàu put jû hìe-seⁿ kèng hó̤;
 * the other way is not so good as that one after all.
 * the other way is not so good as that one after all.


 * cía tàu īa pă lío;
 * well then, let it pass, (a sufficient error has already occurred).


 * To mortise in; to set a tenon.
 * tàu sún;
 * to mortise in a tenon.
 * to mortise in a tenon.


 * cí kâi sún tàu khṳ̀ khah khùaⁿ;
 * this tenon does not fit tightly in the mortise.


 * Dice.
 * i nŏ̤ nâng tó̤ pûah tâu;
 * the two are throwing dice.
 * the two are throwing dice.


 * ĭe tâu;
 * shake the dice.


 * lok tâu;
 * rattle the dice in the box.


 * khah tâu;
 * gamble with dice.


 * To take or go to; to deliver; to give one's self up to; to have recourse to; to agree on; to consort with.
 * tâu bûn-cṳ;
 * deliver a dispatch.
 * deliver a dispatch.


 * íⁿ-keng tau mêng i kâi côk tíeⁿ;
 * have already sought out and informed the head of his clan.


 * jît cē àm cío cū khṳ̀ tâu nâ;
 * as soon as it is dusk the birds seek retirement among the trees.


 * tâu khî só̤ hàuⁿ;
 * agrees with whatever one likes; sycophantic.


 * i ka-kī cṳ̆ tâu lô̤-măng;
 * he let himself fall into the snare.


 * i soiⁿ sĭ châk lâi tâu-sêng kâi;
 * he is a rebel who has returned to his allegiance.


 * i tòa kúi peh nâng lâi tâu hâng;
 * he led several hundred to return to allegiance.


 * i khṳ̀ tâu kun;
 * he has enlisted in the army.


 * i lâi tâu tŏ̤ úa kò̤;
 * he came to stop at my house, as a casual visitor.


 * tâu seⁿ bô̤ tâu sí;
 * hospitality forbids the delivering over of a refugee to death.


 * A road, path or way; a circuit; the officer who oversees a circuit or region; a principle, a doctrine, that which the mind approves; rectitude or right reason; the Reason or Logos of the Rationalists, denoting an emanation, the unknown factor or principle of nature, the way it acts in matter and mind; to lead, to direct, to follow out, to go in a designated path; a classifier of courses at a feast, edicts, dispatches, gateways, walls, rivers, and bridges.
 * tău-thâi;
 * the Intendant of Circuit.
 * the Intendant of Circuit.


 * cí cêk tău kong bûn àiⁿ khṳ̀ tī-kò̤?
 * Where is this dispatch to be sent?


 * i sǹg sĭ tng tău kuaⁿ;
 * he is exercising the power of an official.


 * tău-lí;
 * reason, propriety, what is evidently right.


 * ŭ tău-lí;
 * has reason on his side.


 * bô̤ tău-lí;
 * is in the wrong.


 * cìaⁿ-tău kâi nâng;
 * an upright man.


 * hŭam sṳ tîeh chông cìaⁿ tău;
 * in all things correct principles must be acted upon.


 * tău kà;
 * Tauism.


 * tău-sṳ̆;
 * tău jîn; Tauists.


 * i cò̤ sṳ̄ ûang-tău;
 * he acts with rectitude.


 * bô̤ tău hun kun tì-kàu kok pāi;
 * an unreasoning, stupid monarch brings national destruction.


 * lō-tău tōa tîo;
 * a wide road.


 * tău thû îo-íen;
 * the way is long.


 * tău-lō tèng bô̤ có bô̤ keh;
 * there are no obstacles in the way.


 * tŏ̤ chim suaⁿ tèng siu tău;
 * in the recesses of the moun tains practising austerities.


 * chiah tău;
 * the equator.


 * i khṳ̀ chim sṳ ó̤h tău;
 * he has gone in search of teachers in order to study Tauism.


 * A robber; one who robs openly; to take by fraud or force; to plunder.
 * khîang-tău;
 * a bandit.
 * a bandit.


 * tău-châk;
 * a highwayman.


 * i pak thau-tău nâng kâi mûeh-kĭaⁿ mē?
 * Has he ever appropriated other people's things, either slyly or forcibly?


 * phêng hái-tău ŭ kong;
 * to subdue pirates is meritorious.


 * tău-kūaⁿ;
 * night-sweats.