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nî 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.

• ‮尙‬sīeⁿ741425
• 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.

hûe-sĭeⁿ;

Buddhist priests.

sieh

• ‮惜‬sieh802618
• 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.

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.

• ‮勺‬sîeh81201
• A ladle.

tâng sîeh, thih sîeh;

brass and iron ladles.

• ‮俗‬sîeh82297
• Common; ordinary.

sîeh-sîeh nē;

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.

• ‮汗‬sîeh165853
• Offensive perspiration.

kha-sîeh;

offensive odor from the feet.

chíu sîeh;

frouzy sweat on the hands.

sien

• ‮仙‬sien79993
• 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.

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 sîen;

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.

• ‮珊‬sien733965

sien-hû;

red coral.

ŭ nŏ̤ ki sien-hû;

I have two branches of red coral.

• ‮癬‬sien80110417
• Tetter; ringworm; scaldhead; scrofulous or leprous sores.

seⁿ sien;

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.

• ‮禪‬sîen75111312
• To sit abstractedly in contemplation, as do Buddhist priests; meditation; to resign the thone to another family.

cŏ̤ sien;

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