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• ‮匍‬pê715207
• To creep; to crawl.

chit cŏ̤ poih pê káu hwt gê;

sit up at seven months old, creep at eight and teeth at nine.

• ‮蚑‬pê3431424
• To crawl, as worms do.

sêng-peh thâng pê cêk koiⁿ, chi-gî căi;

the caterpillars from the fir trees are crawling everywhere, and rendering all places horrible.

cêk tīo pê tŏ̤ lṳ́ sin tèng;

there is one crawling upon you.

• ‮耙‬pê6451274
• A drag; a rake; to harrow.

lôi, pê, cúi-chia;

ploughs, harrows and water-wheels; farming implements.

khîa ki khau-pê khṳ̀ khau cháu;

take a rake and rake out the weeds.

pê châng;

harrow a field.

phah sua pê;

an instrument for clearing water courses from sand.

pê khui;

rake open.

thih pê;

an iron rake.

• ‮蟛‬pê66217212
• ; pê-khî;

a small land-crab common in rice-fields.

âng kha pê-khî;

red clawed land crabs.

• ‮叉‬pê5291
• ; pê-thâu;

a trident; a three pronged fork, used as a weapon in battle.

• ‮父‬pĕ147880
• A father; an ancestor.

seⁿ pĕ;

he who begot me.

pĕ chin;

own father.

ngĭ pĕ;

adopted father.

pĕ cip;

my father's friends.

peh pĕ, cek pĕ;

father's elder and younger brother.

pĕ hiaⁿ kà kíaⁿ-tĭ to sĭ kà i hó̤;

when fathers and elder brothers teach the children of a family, they are always well taught.

pĕ-bó̤ kuaⁿ;

our district magistrate.

thî-kìu pĕ sṳ;

examine his father and his teacher.

i tâng sòi bô̤ pĕ bô̤ bó̤;

from his infancy he has had neither father nor mother.

có pĕ;

grandfather.

ceng có pĕ;

great grandfather.

kau có pĕ;

great great grandfather.

ngák pĕ;

wife's father.

tâng-nî pĕ;

the father of a friend born in the same year as myself.

i kâi pĕ có īa sĭ thí-mīn kâi nâng;

his ancestors also were people of repute.

jû ló ău-pĕ;

hatred like that toward a step-father.

pĕ bó̤ sieh kíaⁿ kâi sim, bô̤ só put cì;

the affection of parents toward their children has no limit.

thiⁿ ĕ bô̤ put sĭ ti pĕ bó̤;

nothing under heaven can render our parents anything but our parents.

peⁿ

• ‮㧳‬peⁿ649644
• To break; to separate the parts of a thing.

peⁿ khui;

to break apart by pulling at.

cí ki sam sie-hŭ peⁿ, peⁿ cò̤ nŏ̤ pôiⁿ;

help to pull apart the sides of this stick of timber and pull it in two.

peⁿ m̄ khui;

cannot rend it in two.

• ‮把‬péⁿ644644
• To hold; to guard; to head off.

péⁿ mn̂g kâi nâng;

those who guard the gates.

péⁿ-síu mn̂g-hŏ;

guards the gates.

péⁿ bô̤ i kùe;

stopped the way and would not let him pass.

ìo lō tèng kak-kak ŭ nâng tó̤ péⁿ;

the important roads are each guarded by some one.

• ‮柄‬pèⁿ700755
• A handle, a haft, a crank; having control of; authority, power.

ūe pèⁿ;

something to take hold of in talking.

màiⁿ phah tīo nâng kâi ūe pèⁿ;

do not interrupt the conversation.

ĕ jît khṳt nâng cò̤ ūe pèⁿ;

will furnish a subject for gossip hereafter.

ŭ pá pèⁿ, kâi sṳ̄ cò̤ lâi bŏi jṳ̂;

with a basis for action, the thing may be done without disorder.

sĭ i tó̤ cíang khŵn-pèⁿ;

it is he who holds the authority.

cí ki pèⁿ khah tó̤;

this haft is too short.

tâng-ue tîeh tàu cêk ki pèⁿ cìaⁿ hó̤ ēng;

the copper saucepan must have a handle put in, then it can be used.

pó-thâu pèⁿ;

an axe-helve.

to pèⁿ;

knife handle.

ŭ kò̤ pèⁿ hó̤ lĭm;

there is a crank to turn it by.

lĭm i kâi pèⁿ lâi ká;

take hold of the crank and turn it vertically.

• ‮併‬pèⁿ70096
• To take from another and add to one's own.

i kâi seng-lí cn̂g kâi khṳt i pèⁿ khṳ̀;

his trade has all been absorbed by them.

nín kak nâng kak nâng cò̤, i īa màiⁿ pèⁿ lṳ́ kâi, lṳ́ īa màiⁿ pèⁿ i kâi;

now go each of you and make your own, he is not to take your things, and you are not to take his.

īa si àiⁿ pèⁿ i kâi pn̄g-úaⁿ-thâu li i căi tit hàuⁿ?;

How can he consent to having the tidbit that caps his bowl of rice taken away?

• ‮平‬pêⁿ701512
• Level, even, smooth, uniform, equal.

lō m̄ pêⁿ;

the road is not level.

pêⁿ-pêⁿ lō;

a level road.

pēⁿ tī;

level ground.

pêⁿ-îeⁿ;

a plain.

pêⁿ-pêⁿ cêk īeⁿ;

all of the same kind.

pêⁿ-pêⁿ hó̤;

equally good.

m̄ pêⁿ īeⁿ;

not of the same sort.

pêⁿ-pêⁿ tōa;

of the same size.

taⁿ thô khṳ̀ thūn i pêⁿ;

carry earth and fill in to make it level.

hái mīn pêⁿ-pêⁿ, bô̤ huang éng;

the sea is smooth, there is no wind nor waves.

nŏ̤ nâng pêⁿ pun;

divide it equally between the two.

pàng pêⁿ màiⁿ khio bî;

set it down so that it will stand level, do not tip it.

nŏ̤ pôiⁿ tîeh péⁿ cài, cē m̄ péⁿ cài cū àiⁿ tăng-thâu-áu;

you must lade in equally on either side, if you do not it will tip to one side.

sĭ nîe pêⁿ tâng a sĭ nîe cui tâng?;

Is it measured level with the brim, or is it heaped up?

nŏ̤ nâng pêⁿ-pêⁿ kûiⁿ;

the two are of equal height.