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ái-i-làng 愛爾蘭 Ireland.
ái-ing-u-gi 愛人如己 to love your neighbor as yourself.
ái káik-su-guong 愛克司光 X-rays.
ái-king 愛鄉 my sweetheart, my beloved, (liống-ái).
âi-lik 愛力 chemical affinity; affinity in general.
ái-mìng-ù-cụ 愛民如子 to love the people as sons.
âi-muò 愛慕 fond of; e.g., persons, etc.


ai-sék 愛惜 to regard or deem highly.
ái-sék-guong-ing 愛惜光陰 to make the most of one's time.
ái-ta-cio-ngiê 愛他主義 altruism ((lé-tä).
áinik 愛物 to be careful of an article.
ái an exclamation.
ái-à 曖吓 an ejaculation, expressing pain or severe labor.
ái 日曖 cloudy, obscure.
ái ái 曖曖 dull, obscured, as the moon.
ái-muoi (cing-sêu) 曖昧(情事) fornication.
ái (ngái) 乃阜 a pass, a defile.
ái dimness of sight, to see indistinctly.
ái a cloudy sky, obscure, cloudy.
ái dài 愛雞 dull and cloudy.
ái like, similar, to pant.
ái a girl, (lêng-ái).
ài (äi) an ejaculation of surprise, a prohibitory exclamation, stop! don't.
áik 把握 to press the hand upon, placed.
áik-áik 扼扼 press down.
áik-biēng 扼扁 to flatten by pressure.
áik-chiòng-áik-biáh 扼牆扼壁 to support oneself by pressing hands against walls.
áik-děng-ne-kó 扼冬那去 where has it been put?
áik-gieng-tàu 扼肩頭 to lay the hand on one's shoulder.
áik-ging 扼繄 to press tightly.
áilk-ging-bié 扼緊◌ to run with all one's might.
áik-lõh 扼落 to press down.
áik-puái 扼破 broken by pressure.
áik-uǎng 扼樺 to make crooked.