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• ‮巢‬tàu37478
• 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.

• ‮競‬tàu40711714
• 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.

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.

• ‮到‬tàu867186
• To reach to; to attain; complete.

tàu-tí sĭ cò̤-nî?

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.

• ‮倒‬tàu86688
• 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.

cía tàu īa pă lío;

well then, let it pass, (a sufficient error has already occurred).

• ‮鬭‬tàu87419114
• To mortise in; to set a tenon.

tàu sún;

to mortise in a tenon.

cí kâi sún tàu khṳ̀ khah khùaⁿ;

this tenon does not fit tightly in the mortise.

• ‮骰‬tâu8761884
• Dice.

i nŏ̤ nâng tó̤ pûah tâu;

the two are throwing dice.

ĭe tâu;

shake the dice.

lok tâu;

rattle the dice in the box.

khah tâu;

gamble with dice.

• ‮投‬tâu876644
• 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.

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.

• ‮道‬tău8671629
• 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.

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.

• ‮盜‬tău8681087
• A robber; one who robs openly; to take by fraud or force; to plunder.

khîang-tău;

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.