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 ti


 * Used by servants and inferiors to denote themselves; a final particle.
 * síe ti;
 * I, your junior; I, your humble client.
 * I, your junior; I, your humble client.


 * peh-sèⁿ khṳ̀ kìⁿ kuaⁿ sĭ cheng ka-kī cò̤ "síe ti";
 * common people who go before a magistrate speak of themselves as "humble selves." cí khí sṳ̄ sĭ ŭ ti; this is something that really happens.


 * sĭ ti;
 * what is really so; just that.


 * sĭ ti pĭen sĭ, hui ti pĭen hui, bô̤ thèng tàⁿ;
 * what is so state as being so, and what is not so state as not being so, and do not talk at random.


 * A spider.
 * ti-tu keⁿ si;
 * the spider makes a web.
 * the spider makes a web.


 * ti-tu tūi si;
 * the spider lets himself down on a thread.


 * ēng ti-tu tūi si, tūi lô̤h lâi;
 * came down by a rope.


 * ti-tu kit măng;
 * the spider weaves a web.


 * ti-tu măng;
 * a spider's web.


 * hó̤ lîah ti-tu khṳ̀ cuh tīo i kâi tâk;
 * catch spiders and set them to suck the poison from it.


 * cuh tâk lío ti-tu tîeh pàng cúi kò̤ khṳt i thò tâk;
 * after sucking out the poison the spiders must be put to the water that they may disgorge the poison.


 * Low; to droop; to hang down.
 * ti siaⁿ;
 * low tones.
 * low tones.


 * ti thâu sòi sĭeⁿ;
 * hang the head and ponder.


 * àiⁿ cū lâi kìⁿ cē kau-ti ce;
 * if you like, let us see who is tallest.


 * kau ti;
 * lofty and lowly.


 * A trumpet.
 * pun ti-tâ;
 * blow a trumpet.
 * blow a trumpet.


 * chìe ti-tâ khek;
 * play on a bugle.


 * The third zodiacal constellation.
 * ti sìu; tī cheⁿ;
 * the stars of the third constellation.
 * the stars of the third constellation.


 * One of the five musical notes.
 * ngŏ im, sĭ keng, siang, kak, tí, ú;
 * the five musical notes are these.
 * the five musical notes are these.


 * Only, but, yet.
 * tí in múaⁿ-tī-kò̤ ŭ châk cìaⁿ cáu khṳ̀ hṳ́-kò̤ pī;
 * as there were robbers every-where he fled there to avoid them.
 * as there were robbers every-where he fled there to avoid them.


 * The base; the bottom; underneath.
 * tâu-tí sĭ cò̤-nî?
 * In the end what does it amount to?
 * In the end what does it amount to?


 * i kâi tí-cṳ́ hó̤;
 * he is of good stock.


 * i sĭ sĭm-mih tí-cṳ́ chut sin?
 * What were his circumstances in early life?


 * cí kâi kūiⁿ sĭ sìu-câi tí, hṳ́ kâi sĭ kṳ́-jîu tí;
 * this district magistrate became such from the rank of Bachelor of Arts, and that one from the rank of Master of Arts.


 * cía mûeh bô̤ tí-cí;
 * this is endless.


 * The bole of a tree; root, origin, foundation.
 * i kâi ūe tàⁿ lâi ŭ kṳn-tì, m̄ pí thèng tàⁿ bô̤ kṳn bô̤ tí;
 * what ho says is well founded, and it is not as if he talked at random and without reason for what he says.
 * what ho says is well founded, and it is not as if he talked at random and without reason for what he says.


 * côiⁿ mâiⁿ ŭ kâi kṳn-tí tŏ̤ kò̤;
 * there was formerly a deep firm foundation laid underneath.


 * To atone for; to sustain; to bear; to get what one deserves; to compound for a money payment by a lien on property.
 * lîah i khṳ̀ tí cŭe;
 * seize and take him to bear the penalty of his crime.
 * seize and take him to bear the penalty of his crime.


 * tí tit kùe a tí m̄ kùe?
 * Will it sustain it, or will it give way under it?


 * cía ūe sĭ lâi tó̤ tí-thak kâi;
 * he comes and says this in order to ward off the consequences.


 * cīeⁿ sìo tí cheng-chó̤ lío;
 * the foregoing accounts are settled in full by a lien.


 * khíong-ui i tí-tng m̄ cŭ;
 * fear he cannot bear up under it.


 * tí tīo jîet cōi?
 * How much has the debt been reduced by the lien given?


 * To cause to go, to give over to, to induce; to bring on; to hazard; to regulate; tending to; indicates causation; an end or aim.
 * tì-sái kàu i m̄ lâi;
 * was the cause of his failure to come.
 * was the cause of his failure to come.


 * íⁿ-tì jû chṳ́;
 * that is the occasion for its being thus.


 * in-ūi hìeⁿ-seⁿ cìaⁿ tì-kàu cìeⁿ-seⁿ;
 * it was in consequence of that, that this came to be so.


 * úa thóiⁿ i cí kĭaⁿ sṳ̄ sĭm sĭ tì-ì;
 * I see that he has his mind fixed upon this.


 * i tì-ì tŏ̤ cí kĭaⁿ sṳ̄;
 * he is bent upon this.


 * i àiⁿ hó̤, hẃn tì-kàu m̄-hó̤;
 * he meant well, but it turned out badly.


 * cieⁿ-seⁿ i cū tì mīaⁿ;
 * in so doing he hazards his life.


 * tăi tì;
 * a resume; in general.


 * tăi-tì ŏi cò̤ tit;
 * it will do in a general way.


 * in-ūi i m̄ tŏ̤ cū tì gō;
 * it was through his being absent that the project came to naught.


 * úa īa sĭ ŭ tŏ̤ hṳ́-kò̤, cū bŏi tì gō sṳ̄;
 * if I had been there the thing would not have fallen through.


 * i tì ŭ sĭm mih pēⁿ-cèng?
 * What disease has he?


 * i kâi pēⁿ sĭ tì kú kâi;
 * his ailment is one that he has had a long time.


 * cía cṳ sĭ kàng-kìu kek mûeh tì cai kâi sṳ̄;
 * this book inquires into the nature of things and applies the knowledge to final causes; this is a philosophy.


 * cí kò̤ kâi kéng-tì sĭm hó̤;
 * the arrangement of things here is very fine.


 * sĭm ŭ ì-tì;
 * ŭ ì ŭ tì; presents evidences of design.


 * cò̤ lâi ŭ ì-tì;
 * is made according to a system.


 * To establish; to make firm; to place; to constitute; to arrange; to determine; to decide; to buy; to lay in goods.
 * To establish; to make firm; to place; to constitute; to arrange; to determine; to decide; to buy; to lay in goods.